Love in Africa / edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2009. - 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index.

Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and J ennifer Cole -- Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanz ibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair -- "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, court ship, and sexualities in Africa, 1960-80 / Kenda Mutongi -- Love, money , and economies of intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Providing love: sex and exchange in twentieth-century South Africa / Ma rk Hunter -- Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspecti ves on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jo rdan Smith -- Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middl e-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk -- Lessons from Rubâi: love, poverty, a nd the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquel ier.

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Sex--Africa.
Sex-- Social aspects--Africa.
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