Re-thinking Sexualities in AfricaSigne Arnfred "This volume sets out to investigate critically existing lines of thought about sexuality in Africa, while also creating space for alternative approaches"--P. [4] of cover. |
Contents
III | 35 |
IV | 59 |
V | 79 |
VI | 97 |
VII | 115 |
VIII | 135 |
IX | 139 |
X | 157 |
XII | 191 |
XIII | 195 |
XIV | 211 |
XV | 233 |
XVI | 251 |
XVII | 269 |
XVIII | 275 |
XI | 173 |
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Page 10 - Thus does it happen that others who consider themselves to be our leaders take to the streets carrying their placards, to demand that because we are germ carriers, and human beings of a lower order that cannot subject its [sic] passions to reason, we must perforce adopt strange opinions, to save a depraved and diseased people from perishing from selfinflicted disease.
Page 19 - As for the Negroes, they have tremendous sexual powers. What do you expect, with all the freedom they have in their jungles! They copulate at all times and in all places. They are really genital. They have so many children that they cannot even count them. Be careful, or they will flood us with little mulattos. (Fanon, 1952: 111) Fanon accounted for beliefs of this kind in terms of the over-intellectualization of 'the civilized white man...
Page 12 - patriarchy" has threatened to become a universalizing concept that overrides or reduces distinct articulations of gender asymmetry in different cultural contexts.
Page 8 - ... sexual difference," are predicated upon (and hence obviously bring into sharper focus) assumptions about Western women as secular, liberated, and having control over their own lives. This is not to suggest that Western women are secular, liberated, and in control of their own lives.
Page 19 - The civilized white man retains an irrational longing for unusual eras of sexual license, of orgiastic scenes, of unpunished rapes, of unrepressed incest. In one way these fantasies respond to Freud's life instinct. Projecting his own desires onto the Negro, the white man behaves "as- if
Page 8 - East' are defined as Others, or as peripheral, that (western) Man/Humanism can represent him/itself as the centre. It is not the centre that determines the periphery, but the periphery that, in its boundedness, determines the centre.