Overview

A draft working definition of sexuality, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), lent some clarity to the fuzzy concept. The WHO draft definition conceptualises sexuality as 'a central aspect of being human throughout life [which] encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Questions about human sexuality have also begun to be asked in very imaginative ways, forcing the field of sexuality to spill over the margins of academic legitimacy and to increasingly hold its own as a valid field of intellectual inquiry. However, in many ways, in sub-Saharan Africa, sexuality as an academic field has been obligated to 'piggy-back' on public health in order to receive serious attention. The consideration of sexuality in the region without some connection with disease has often been perceived as a rather frivolous academic endeavour. Modifying this notion has been a slow but sure venture.

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Author:   Chimaraoke O Izugbara ,  Chi-Chi Undie ,  Jennifer Wanjiku Khamas
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.704kg
ISBN:  

9781608769544

ISBN 10:   1608769542
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction; Concubinage Among NGWA-IGBO of Southern Nigeria; Remembering J. M. Stuart-Young of Onitsha, colonial Nigeria: memoirs, obituaries & names; Sexuality in Folklore in a Nigerian Society; The right to Culture & the Culture of Rights: A Critical Perspective on Women's Sexual Rights in Africa); Sexuality & Virginity Testing in Zulu Culture: Emerging Issues; Reflections on Male Circumcision among the Gikuyu of Kenya; Fitting In & Spreading Out: Ambiguities & Changing Imaginations of Sexuality among the Luo in Kisumu; Situational Gender & Subversive Sex? African Contributions to Feminist Theorizing; Sexuality & Poverty: What Have They Got to do With Each Other?; Nigerian Tales of Occult Sexual Economies; ""Dear Dolly's"" Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, & Sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980; Sexuality & Prostitution Among the Akan of the Gold Coast c. 1650-1950; 'Getting the Nation Talking about Sex': Reflections on the Discursive Constitution of Sexuality in South Africa since 1994; Index."

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