Research Catalog

Title

Sexual diversity in Africa : politics, theory, and citizenship / edited by S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht.

Publication

• Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Epprecht, Marc
• Nyeck, S. N., 1977-

Description

vi, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Sexual minorities > Africa
• Sex > Africa
• Gender identity > Africa
• Queer theory > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Introduction / S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht -- Human rights challenge in Africa : sexual minority rights and the African charter on human and peoples' rights / Olajide Akanji and Marc Epprecht -- No place like home : African refugees and the emergence of a new queer frame of reference / Notisha Massaquoi -- The making of "African sexuality" : early sources, current debates / Marc Epprecht -- Rhetorical analysis of President Jammeh's threats to behead homosexuals in the Gambia / Stella Nyanzi -- Military mutilation : the Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid era / Vasu Reddy, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Crystal Munthree -- Constructing the "ex-gay" subject : cultural convergences in post-Apartheid South Afrca / Melissa Hackman -- The (mis)treatment of South African track star Caster Semenya / Shari L. Dworkin, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Cheryl Cooky -- Mobilizing against the invisible : erotic nationalism, mass media, and the "paranoid style" in Cameroon / S.N. Nyeck -- "The one who first says I love you" : love, senority, and relational gender in postcolonial Ghana / Serena Owusua Dankwa -- LGBTI community and citizenship practices in urban Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Male homosexuality in Bamako : a cross-cultural and cross-historical comparative perspective / Christophe Broqua -- The politics of sexual diversity : an afterword / Sylvia Tamale.

Call Number

Sc E 15-111

ISBN

• 9780773541870 (bound)
• 077354187X (bound)
• 9780773541887 (pbk.)
• 0773541888 (pbk.)
• 9780773589759 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 0773589759 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780773589766 (ePUB) (canceled/invalid)
• 0773589767 (ePUB) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

843859512

Title

Sexual diversity in Africa : politics, theory, and citizenship / edited by S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht.

Publisher

Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Added Author

Epprecht, Marc, editor.

Nyeck, S. N., 1977- editor.

Other Form:

Sexual diversity in Africa. (CaOONL)20139028471

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-111