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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Globalisation of sex and problematics of sexual identities in Africa: Contesting queer
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31. Sexuality and Politics in Africa
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| Paper ID | 215 |
| Author(s) |
Chacha, Babere Kerata
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Behind globalisation lies the growing internationalisation of the sexual rights and identities, women's movement, and increasing demands for basic equality, just as it lies behind the escalation of effective new sexual orientation in many urban areas of Africa. Globalisation has allowed for the first time the development of an international gay and lesbian movement, now a reality in many parts of the Africa.
Since the late twenthieth and twenty-first centuries, Africa has become tightly integrated into the global system-there has been a growing rights movement in a number of countries to regard specifically to marriage, sexual and reproductive health, one of the main vectors of these information has been the women rights groups often run by local and international NGOs.
Demographic transformations such as rising age at marriage and increasing levels of urban migration are playing a part in changing the nature of male-female relationships. Sexual relationships are being socially constructed as an appropriate expression of intimacy, but also as a statement about a particular kind of modern identity. Globalisation is widely viewed as one of the most powerful forces shaping the modern world and a key idea explaining the transition of the human society into the third millennium. People consider globalisation a tidal wave sweeping over the world and profoundly influencing every aspect of our lives in all disciplines: politics, economics, law, social relations, and culture.
In this paper, I intend to examine the role played by international conferences and international NGOs on matters of sexual identity and rights issues in Africa. By reviewing literature from multiple disciplines to delve into what it means to be male and female in modern African contexts; the different ways in which sexualities have been constructed, performed, resisted, transformed and transgressed; how tensions between traditions and modernities have played out in the arena of gender; the ways in which post-colonial movements and institutions mobilize gender ideologies. First I examine the internalization reproductive and sexual rights and how this has affected in gender and sexual identities in Africa.
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