The sexual history of the global south : sexual politics and postcolonialism in Africa, Asia and Latin America / / edited by Saskia Wieringa and Horacio Sivori

• Pubblicazione: London, : Zed Books, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3; 305.3091814
• Soggetto topico: Sex - Political aspects; Postcolonialism - Africa; Postcolonialism - Asia; Postcolonialism - Latin America
• Altri autori: WieringaSaskia <1950-> SivoriHoracio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sexual politics in the global South: framing the discourse / Saskia Wieringa and Horacio Sívori ; The rise of sex and sexuality studies in post-1978 China / Huang Yingying ; The obscene modern and the pornographic family: adventures in Bangla pornography / Hardik Brata Biswas ; Sexing the nation's body during the Cuban republican era / Abel Sierra Madero ; Government and the control of venereal diseases in colonial Tanzania, 1920-60 / Musa Sadock ; Violence and the emergence of gay and lesbian activism in Argentina, 1983-90 / Diego Sempol ; Sexuality and nationalist ideologies in post-colonial Cameroon / Basile Ndjio ; The 'lesbian' existence in Arab cultures: historical and sociological perspectives / Iman Al-Ghafari ; 'Public women' and the 'obscene' body: an exploration of abolition debates in India / Nitya Vasudevan ; Male homoeroticism, homosexual identity, and AIDS in Mexico City in the 1980s / Alberto Teutle López ; Canons of desire: male homosexuality in twenty-first-century Keralam / Rajeev Kumaramkandath ; Female criminality in Brazil: a study on gender and sexuality in a women's prison / Fabíola Cordeiro ; Sexual pleasure and premarital sexual adventures of young women in Zimbabwe / Tsitsi B. Masvawure.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies based on original historical and ethnographic research in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sexual history of the global south
• ISBN: 1-350-22352-2; 1-78032-405-7; 1-299-45666-9; 1-78032-404-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822761203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II