Love in Africa / edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas.

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Other Authors: Cole, Jennifer, 1966-, Thomas, Lynn M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.