Heterosexual Africa? Marc Epprecht sku-518193562 Book

In Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS, Marc Epprecht examines how Africa came to be portrayed as exclusively heterosexual. Building on his earlier book Hungochani, about same-sex desire in southern Africa, he traces the roles of anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites and health care workers in shaping and sustaining that idea.

He argues that Africans have always had varied sexualities and sexual identities. The book follows the stereotype from the colonial era through independence, globalization and responses to HIV/AIDS, drawing on queer theory, imperial and African social history, women's studies and biomedical literature. It is a hardcover in the African History Books category. SKU sku-518193562.