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Sexual diversity in Africa : politics, theory, and citizenship / edited by S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montréal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013.; Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013.Edition: [CEL versionDescription: 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773589759
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ73 .S498 2013
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Contents:
Olajide Akanji and Marc Epprecht -- No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference / Notisha Massaquoi -- The Making of "African Sexuality": Early Sources, Current Debates / Marc Epprecht -- Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh's Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia / Stella Nyanzi
Era Vasu Reddy, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Crystal Munthree -- Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Melissa Hackman -- The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster / Semenya Shari L. Dworkin, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Cheryl Cooky
S.N. Nyeck -- "The One Who First Says I Love You": Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana / Serena Owusua Dankwa -- LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective / Christophe Broqua -- The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword / Sylvia Tamale.
Subject: A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part One : Framing the Debates. Human Rights Challenge in Africa: Sexual Minority Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights / Olajide Akanji and Marc Epprecht -- No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference / Notisha Massaquoi -- The Making of "African Sexuality": Early Sources, Current Debates / Marc Epprecht -- Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh's Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia / Stella Nyanzi

Part Two : South Africa. Military Mutilation: The Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid / Era Vasu Reddy, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Crystal Munthree -- Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Melissa Hackman -- The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster / Semenya Shari L. Dworkin, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Cheryl Cooky

Part Three : Comparative Studies. Mobilizing against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, and the "Paranoid Style" in Cameroon / S.N. Nyeck -- "The One Who First Says I Love You": Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana / Serena Owusua Dankwa -- LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective / Christophe Broqua -- The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword / Sylvia Tamale.

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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