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The Sexual History of the Global South
Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America
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The Sexual History of the Global South
Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America
About this book
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 from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-normative sexualities, women's sexual agency, the policing of the boundaries between the public and the private realm, sexual citizenship, the connections between LGBTQ activism and processes of state formation, and the emergence of sexuality studies in the global South, this collection is of great geographical, historical, and topical significance.
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Table of contents
- About the editors
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 | Sexual politics in the global South: framing the discourse
- 2 | The rise of sex and sexuality studies in post-1978 China
- 3 | The obscene modern and the pornographic family: adventures in Bangla pornography
- 4 | Sexing the nation’s body during the Cuban republican era
- 5 | Government and the control of venereal disease in colonial Tanzania, 1920–60
- 6 | Violence and the emergence of gay and lesbian activism in Argentina, 1983–90
- 7 | Sexuality and nationalist ideologies in post-colonial Cameroon
- 8 | The ‘lesbian’ existence in Arab cultures: historical and sociological perspectives
- 9 | ‘Public women’ and the ‘obscene’ body: an exploration of abolition debates in India
- 10 | Male homoeroticism, homosexual identity, and AIDS in Mexico City in the 1980s
- 11 | Canons of desire: male homosexuality in twenty-first-century Keralam
- 12 | Female criminality in Brazil: a study on gender and sexuality in a women’s prison
- 13 | Sexual pleasure and the premarital sexual adventures of young women in Zimbabwe
- About the contributors
- Index
- About Zed Books