Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs
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Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs

Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria

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eBook - ePub

Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs

Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria

About this book

Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria explores how Nigerian women use traditional aphrodisiacs, known as kayan mata, to navigate intimacy, power, and survival in a rapidly evolving society.

From Northern Nigeria's aphrodisiac markets to Instagram's digital culture, the study explores how kayan mata products are used to negotiate love, autonomy, and material security within cultural, religious, and economic constraints. Drawing on participants' lived experiences and African feminist theories, such as nego-feminism, this book highlights the complex and adaptive nature of women's sexual agency. It challenges readers to rethink agency by showing how everyday acts of desire, beauty, and spirituality may also serve as strategies of resistance and self-determination within intimate domains.

Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria will be of interest to both students and scholars of gender studies, anthropology, African studies, feminist theory, and cultural sociology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction: Desire, power, and the politics of intimacy in Nigeria
  8. 1 Traditional aphrodisiacs, intimacy, and empowerment in Nigeria
  9. 2 Navigating complexity: Evolving family structures and intimate relationship dynamics in Nigeria
  10. 3 Negotiating feminism: Cultural dynamics, sexual agency, and empowerment
  11. 4 Exploring the evolution and cultural significance of aphrodisiacs
  12. 5 Empowerment and agency
  13. 6 Beyond kayan mata: Gender and morality in intimate relationships
  14. 7 Sexuality, agency, and intimate politics
  15. 8 Theorizing sexual agency and empowerment
  16. 9 Family and marriage in 21st-century Nigeria: An exploration of social change and institutional influences
  17. 10 Critical reflection on sexuality research in Nigeria: Epistemology, fieldwork, and researcher’s positionality
  18. Conclusion
  19. References
  20. Index