Love in Africa

Name: Love in Africa
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ISBN: 9780226113531

ISBN-10: 0226113531

ISBN-13: 9780226113531

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jennifer Cole, Lynn M. Thomas

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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 lifea glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africaseeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



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Acknowledgments



Thinking through Love in Africa




Love, Sex, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa




Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences, and the Construction of Romance in the 1950s and 1960s




"Dear Dolly's" Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980




Love, Money, and Economies of Intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar




Providing Love: Sex and Exchange in Twentieth-Century South Africa




Managing Men, Marriage, and Modern Love: Women's Perspectives on Intimacy and Male Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria




Media and the Therapeutic Ethos of Romantic Love in Middle-Class Nairobi




Lessons from Rubi: Love, Poverty, and the Educational Value of Televised Dramas in Niger



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List of Contributors


Index