New Book from the Nordic Africa Institute: Signe Arnfred (ed.), Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa
276 pp, Published: April 2004 by the Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 91-7106-513-X Price: 220 SEK/ appr. 22 EURO
Keywords: Africa, Women, Gender relations, Sexuality, Culture,
Ghana, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania
The volume brings together papers by African and
Nordic-Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists, in
attempts to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of
thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating
space for alternative approaches.
Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on “African
sexuality” and on “female genital mutilation” are being discussed,
as well as issues of female agency and of feminists engagement
with HIV/AIDS. The volume contributes to contemporary efforts
of re-thinking sexualities in the light of feminist, queer and
postcolonial theory.
“There is no doubt that there is a pressing need to theorize
sexualities from within paradigms fully alert to the dangers of
colonial legacies concerning the African and deeply committed
to the creation of knowledgeís capable of revolutionizing
African-based economic, political, and cultural dependencies”.
“With few exceptions, the writers are well known in their (various) disciplinary and national contexts as African-focused researchers with strong – and sometimes deeply innovative – approaches to the complex theoretical (and practical) implications of gender, colonialism, “post-democracy”, and sexualities.”
(Dr Jane Bennett, University of Cape Town)
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