African Studies

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Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights

The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

By Ellie Gore
Subjects: African Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examining the impacts of global development processes and HIV response on queer politics and activism in Ghana

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

By Denise Allen
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs

Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Pamela Lou Feldman-Savelsberg
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

Illuminates the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration through the social construction of female infertility

Intimate Fathers

The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care

By Barry S. Hewlett
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies
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