Epprecht, Marc.

Heterosexual Africa? : the history of an idea from the age of exp loration to the age of AIDS / Marc Epprecht. - Athens : Scottsville, South Africa : Ohio University Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. - xiii, 231 p. ; 23 cm. - New African histories series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-218) and index.

A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: refl ections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography o f African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay shaka - - Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguiti es : African voices in literature and film.

9780821417997

2008-009908


Homosexuality--History.--Africa
Gays--History.--Africa
AIDS (Disease)--Africa.
HIV Infections--Africa.


Africa--Social life and customs.
Africa--Politics and government.

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