African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization

by Neville Hoad and Annabeth Albert

There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the "Africanness" of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms "sexuality" and "homosexuality" outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816649162
• ISBN13: 9780816649167
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"