Anyone who is passionate about women, gender and development in African contexts needs to interrogate discourses about African sexuality. These discourses have long histories of academic authority that have assisted in ensuring that hegemonic discourses about sexuality were at the heart of the continent’s underdevelopment during colonialism. And as contributors to Feminist Africa 5 (on Sexual Cultures) point out, sexuality remains central to contemporary conflict about citizenship in postcolonial and post-apartheid contexts.
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Editorial
Editorial - Subaltern Sexualities
- by Eliane Salo and Pumla Dineo Gqola
Features
Re-righting the sexual body
- by Jessica Horn
Eros, beauty and crisis: notes from Senegal
- by Hudita Nura Mustafa
Putting them in their place: "respectable" and "unrespectabel" women in Zimbabwe gender struggles
- by Chipo Hungwe
Ruling masculinity and sexuality
- by Kopano Ratele
Standpoints
Disability and desire: journey of a filmmaker
- by Shelly Barry
Challenging sexual stereotypes: is cross-dressing "un-African"?
- by Jessie Kabwira Kapasula
The 50th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March: a personal recollection
- by Elinor Sisulu
Tribute
The deadly cost of breaking the silence: a tribute to Lorna Mlosana
- by Margie Orford
Profiles
Sister Namibia: Fighting for all human rights for all women
- by Liz Frank and Elizabeth /Khaxas
SWEAT (Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce)
- by Jayne Arnott
In Conversation
Pumla Dineo Gqola speaks with Wendy Issack
Reviews
Killing a Virus with Stones? Research on the Implementation of Policies Against Sexual Harassement in Southern African Higher Education edited by Jane Bennett
- reviewed by Margaret Orr
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female same-sex practices in Africa edited by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa
- reviewed by Sara Matchett
Performing Queer: Shaping Sexualities 1994-2004, Volume 1 edited by Mikki van Zyl and Melissa Steyn
- reviewed by A.C. Fick