TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazrui,Ali A.
AU  - Anwar,Etin
TI  - The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality: Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives
SN  - 9780761864035
AV  - HQ1075 -- .M397 2014eb 
U1  - 305.3 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - UPA
KW  - Ethnische Beziehung
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND THE CULTURE OF SEXUALITY -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Copyright Acknowledgment -- Editor's Introduction -- Author's Introduction -- I. The Politics of the Human Body -- 1.1. On Revolution and Nakedness -- 1.2. Political Man and the Heritage of Hair: Some African Perspectives -- 1.3. The Poetics of a Transplanted Heart -- II. The Politics of Sexuality -- 2.1. Political Sex: Monogamy and Racialism -- 2.2. Monogamy and Descent in Black-White Relations -- 2.3. Suttee and Levirate in Black-Brown Relations -- 2.4. Africa's Triple Heritage of Play: Reflections on the Gender Gap -- 2.5. On Gender and Power: A Post-Colonial Sexual Equation -- 2.6. Inter-Racial Mating and Cross-Racial Milestones: From Princess Diana to Barack Obama -- III. The Politics of Gender -- 3.1. The African Renaissance: A Triple Legacy of Skills, Values, and Gender -- 3.2. Language Planning and Gender Planning: Some African Perspectives -- 3.3. The Black Woman and the Problem of Gender: An African Perspective -- 3.4. The Dialectic Between Men and Women: The Legacy of 'A'isha -- IV. The Politics of Citizenship -- 4.1. Armed Kinsmen and the Origins of the State: An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology -- 4.2. Gender, Skill, and Power: Africa in Search of Transformation -- 4.3. From Kinship to Citizenship -- 4.4. The Warrior Tradition and the Masculinity of War -- 4.5. Gandhi, Marx, and the Warrior Tradition: Towards Androgynous Liberation -- 4.6. Post-Liberation Movements: In Search of Racial, Sexual, and Class Utopias -- V. The Politics of Population -- 5.1. Islamic Doctrine and the Politics of Induced Fertility Change: An African Perspective -- 5.2. Ethnicity, Power, and Population in Eastern Africa -- 5.3. Population Control and Social Justice: An African Perspective -- Conclusion -- Index
N2  - The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. In doing so, the author and editor present a multifaceted and dynamic theoretical discourse of gender
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