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.