ISBN:
0226113558
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9780226113555
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
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DDC:
306.7096
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Love
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Sex
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PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality
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SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction
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Love
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Love / Social aspects
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Sex
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Sex / Social aspects
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Erotik
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Liebe
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Sexualverhalten
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Gesellschaft
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Sex
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Sex Social aspects
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Love
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Love Social aspects
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Erotik
;
Liebe
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Afrika
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Afrika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Liebe
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Afrika
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Erotik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Afrika
;
Liebe
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index
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Introduction: thinking through love in Africa / Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole -- Love, sex, and the modern girl in 1930s southern Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Making love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari audiences, and the construction of romance in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Fair -- "Dear Dolly's" advice: representations of youth, courtship, 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 / Mark Hunter -- Managing men, marriage, and modern love: women's perspectives on intimacy and male infidelity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi / Rachel Spronk -- Lessons from Rubí: love, poverty, and the educational value of televised dramas in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
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In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life-a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it
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http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226113555.001.0001/upso-9780226113524
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