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Title Love in Africa / edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole -- Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair -- "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, courtship, and sexualities in Africa, 1960-80 / Kenda Mutongi -- Love, money, and economies of intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Providing love: sex and exchange in twentieth-century South Africa / Mark Hunter -- Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspectives on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk -- Lessons from Rubí: love, poverty, and the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
Summary In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life-a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index
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Subject Sex -- Africa
Sex -- Social aspects -- Africa
Love -- Africa
Love -- Social aspects -- Africa
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Love
Love -- Social aspects
Sex
Sex -- Social aspects
Erotik
Liebe
Sexualverhalten
Africa
Afrika
Form Electronic book
Author Cole, Jennifer, 1966-
Thomas, Lynn M.
LC no. 2008043551
ISBN 9780226113555
0226113558
9780226113524
9780226113531
0226113523
0226113531
128223949X
9781282239494
9786612239496
6612239492