1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455122703321

Autore

Epprecht Marc

Titolo

Heterosexual Africa? [[electronic resource] ] : the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS / / Marc Epprecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press

Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8214-4298-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

New African histories series

Disciplina

306.76/60967

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Africa - History

Gays - Africa - History

AIDS (Disease) - Africa

HIV infections - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Social life and customs

Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-218)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: reflections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography of African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay shaka -- Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguities : African voices in literature and film.

Sommario/riassunto

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed-by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of sources, that will find enthusiastic aud