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Author Epprecht, Marc.

Title Heterosexual Africa? [electronic resource] : the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS / Marc Epprecht.

Imprint Athens : Ohio University Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 231 p.
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-218) and index.
Contents A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: reflections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography of African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay shaka -- Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguities : African voices in literature and film.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Homosexuality -- Africa -- History.
Gays -- Africa -- History.
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa.
HIV infections -- Africa.
Africa -- Social life and customs.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821417980 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0821417983 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780821417997 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821417991 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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