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1 online resource (vi, 302 pages) : illustrations |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Sexual minorities -- Africa.
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Sex -- Africa.
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Gender identity -- Africa.
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Queer theory -- Africa.
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Gay men -- Africa -- History.
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Lesbians -- Africa -- History.
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Homophobia -- Africa -- History.
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Gender identity. |
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Queer theory. |
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Sex. |
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Sexual minorities. |
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Africa. |
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Electronic books. |
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Epprecht, Marc, editor.
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Nyeck, S. N., 1977- editor.
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Akanji, Olajide.
Human rights challenge in Africa.
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Massaquoi, Notisha.
No place like home.
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Epprecht, Marc.
Making of "African sexuality."
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Nyanzi, Stella.
Rhetorical analysis of President Jammeh's threats to behead homosexuals in the Gambia.
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Reddy, Vasu.
Military mutilation.
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Hackman, Melissa.
Constructing the "ex-gay" subject.
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Dworkin, Shari L.
(Mis)treatement of South African track star Caster Semenya.
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Nyeck, S. N., 1977-
Mobilizing against the invisible.
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Dankwa, Serena Owusua.
"The one who first says I love you."
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O'Mara, Kathleen.
LGBTI community and citizenship practices in urban Ghana.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Sexual diversity in Africa Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013] 9780773541870 (OCoLC)843859512 |
| ISBN |
9780773589759 : $29.95 |
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0773589759 : $29.95 |
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