African Sexualities: A Reader

"African Sexualities: A Reader provides a critical and groundbreaking mapping of the plurality of African sexualities while also challenging the reader to question several basic assumptions. It provides an invaluable resource for scholars and teachers from a variety of disciplines, legal and policy practitioners, social justice activists and lay people. The first interdisciplinary Reader of its kind, African Sexualities includes over 60 contributions by African writers and thinkers from a range of ages and professions, and spans many of the continent's diverse and dynamic sexual cultures. The book provides an African perspective, incorporating original research and analysis, life stories and artistic expression. It examines dominant and deviant sexualities, analyses the body as a site of political, cultural and social contestation and investigates the intersections between sex, power, masculinities and femininities. Through feminist approaches, African Sexualities analyses sexuality within the various structures of oppression - patriarchal, capitalist, colonial, neocolonial - while also highlighting its emancipatory potential." -- Provided by publisher.