The Sexual History of the Global South : Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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 colo...
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London :
Zed Books,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
