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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811429203321
• Autore: Epprecht Marc
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : Ohio University Press; Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8214-4298-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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; 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