Readings in sexualities from Africa / edited by Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks.

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, in association with the International African Institute, [2020]

xi, 363 pages ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reading "sexualities" from "Africa" / Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks -- Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg -- Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism. race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane -- "Bisexuality" and the politics of normal African ethnography / Marc Epprecht -- On being area-studied: a litany of complaint / Keguro Macharia -- Dangerous aphrodisiac, restless sexuality: venereal disease, biomedicine, and protectionism in colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto -- Irua Ria Atumia and anticolonial struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: a counternarrative on "female genital mutilation" / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi -- "These women, they force us to rape them": rape as narrative of social control in postapartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett -- "Transparent sexualities": sexual openness, HIV disclosure, and the governmentality of sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- A note on "woman marriage" in Dahomey / Melville Jean Herskovits -- Sexual inversion among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard -- "A man is a man completely and a wife is a wife completely": gender classification and performance among "ladies" and "gents" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga / Graeme Reid -- The imagined homoconference: "activistism" and the politics of indirection / Serena Owusu Dankwa -- The materiality of everyday sex: thinking beyond "prostitution" / Mark Hunter -- On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua -- Belonging in ethnocentric economies: adultery, alerity, and ritual in postcolonial Kenya / George Paul Meiu -- The pleasures of the city: masculinity, sexuality, and femininity in Dakar (1997-2000) / Tshikala Kayembe Biaya -- Postcolonial histories of sexuality: the political invention of libidinal African straight / Basile Ndjio -- Homosexuality, politics, and pentecostal nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan S. van Klinken -- "He uses my body": female traditional healers, male ancestors, and transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie -- The sexual potentate: on sodomy, fellatio, and other postcolonial privacies / Achille Mbembe -- Sex life among young people / Jomo Kenyatta -- Eroticism, sensuality, and women's secrets among the Baganda: a critical analysis / Sylvia Tamale -- Sex, food, and female power: discussion of data material from northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred -- My childhood as an adult molester: a Salt River moffie / Zackie Achmat.