Changing narratives of sexuality :
Changing narratives of sexuality : contestations, compliance and women's empowerment /
edited by Charmaine Pereira.
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2014.
- x, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
- Feminisms and development .
- Feminisms and development. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1 Negotiating desire? -- Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali -- Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq -- Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana -- PART 2 Body politics and sexualities -- Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg -- Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson -- PART 3 Changing institutions? -- Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.
1783600128 (pbk.) 9781783600120 (pbk.) 9781783600137 1783600136
2014453156
HQ1870.9 / .C45 2014
305.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1 Negotiating desire? -- Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali -- Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq -- Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana -- PART 2 Body politics and sexualities -- Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg -- Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson -- PART 3 Changing institutions? -- Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.
1783600128 (pbk.) 9781783600120 (pbk.) 9781783600137 1783600136
2014453156
HQ1870.9 / .C45 2014
305.4