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Introduction: Reading "sexualities" from "Africa" / Rachel Spronk and Thomas Hendriks
I. Representing "African" Sexualities
1. Is there a distinct African sexuality? A critical response to Caldwell / Beth Maina Ahlberg
2. Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane
3. "Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography / Marc Epprecht
4. On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint / Keguro Macharia
II. Bio-Politics—Sexual Health
5. Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality: Venereal Disease, Biomedicine, and Protectionism in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria / Saheed Aderinto
6. Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on "Female Genital Mutilation" / Wairimu N. Njambi
7. "These Women, They Force Us to Rape Them": Rape as Narrative of Social Control in Post- Apartheid South Africa / Helen Moffett
8. "Transparent Sexualities": Sexual Openness, HIV Disclosure and the Governmentality of Sexuality in South Africa / Marian Burchardt
III. Same-Sex Practices—Gendered Identities
9. A Note on "Woman Marriage" in Dahomey / Melville J. Herskovits
10. Sexual Inversion Among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
11. "A Man is a Man Completely and a Wife is a Wife Completely": Gender Classification and Performance amongst "Ladies" and "Gents" in Ermelo, Mpumalanga'/ Graeme Reid
12. The Imagined Homoconference: "Activist-ism" and the Politics of Indirection, Serena Dankwa
IV. Love Transactions—Economies of Pleasure
13. The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond "Prostitution"/ Mark Hunter
14. On remuneration for homosexual practices in Bamako / Christophe Broqua
15. Belonging in Ethno-Erotic Economies: Adultery, Alterity, and Ritual in Postcolonial Kenya / George P. Meiu
16. The Pleasures of the City: Masculinity, Sexuality and Femininity in Dakar / Tshikala K. Biaya
V. Mobilizing Religion—Queering Tradition
17. Post-Colonial Histories of Sexuality: The Political Invention of a Libidinal African straight / Basile Ndjio
18. Homosexuality, Politics and Pentecostal Nationalism in Zambia / Adriaan van Klinken
19. "He Uses my Body": Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa / Cheryl Stobie
20. The sexual potentate. On sodomy, fellatio and other postcolonial privacies / Achille Mbembe
VI. Discrete Pleasures—Defiant Agencies
21. Sex Lives among Young People / Jomo Kenyatta
22. Eroticism, Sensuality and Women's Secrets among the Baganda / Sylvia Tamale
23. Sex, Food and Female Power: Discussion of Data Material from Northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred
24. My Childhood as an Adult Molester / Zackie Achmat
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