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Autore: |
Epprecht Marc
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Titolo: |
Heterosexual Africa? : the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS / / Marc Epprecht
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Pubblicazione: | Athens, : Ohio University Press |
Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.76/60967 |
Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality - Africa - History |
Gays - Africa - History | |
AIDS (Disease) - Africa | |
HIV infections - Africa | |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa Social life and customs |
Africa Politics and government | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Heterosexual Africa ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8214-4298-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811429203321 |
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