Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDSOhio University Press, 15 օգս, 2008 թ. - 240 էջ 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 audiences in classrooms and in the general public. Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries, however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity, became a dominant culture. In telling a fascinating story that will surely generate lively debate, Epprecht makes his project speak to a range of literatures—queer theory, the new imperial history, African social history, queer and women’s studies, and biomedical literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references to particular debates. Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa came to be defined as a “homosexual-free zone” during the colonial era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS. |
From inside the book
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... Africa south of the Sahara in the mid1980s.1 At that time its rapid, atypical progress in populations focused considerable attention on so-called African sexuality. Scientists, theologians, pundits, gender activists, and other ...
... African sexuality exists and that it exacerbates the risks of HIV transmission particularly for women. This hypothetical singular African sexuality includes, above all, the supposed nonexistence of homosexuality or bisexuality, along with ...
... African sexuality and heterosexual African AIDS made a lot of sense to many people at the time of the onset of the ... sexuality also suggested a problem that could be fixed with education, aid dollars, and Western advice drawn from ...
... African sexuality” and the empirical evidence has also been established with regard to the claim or assumption of no homosexuality. True, few Africans south of the Sahara even today would identify as homosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, ...
... African sexuality stereotype. That element has not been given the attention it merits, although, I will argue, the notion of no homosexuality is at least as wrongheaded and harmful as the stereotype ofAfrican promiscuity. How the idea ...
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Ethnopsychiatry and the Making of Gay Shaka | |
Slim Disease and the Science of Silence | |
Alternatives and Ambiguities | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Works Cited | |
Index | |
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