The writings show how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent and reflect the changes in approach and inquiry that have been brought about as the authors consider gender identities and difference in their work. Specific themes covered here include the contestation and representation of gender, femininity and masculinity: livelihoods and life ways: gender and religion, gender and culture: gender and governance.
Major Problems in American History series introduces the readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This volume contains a number of chapters with documents and essays about: Sexual cultures and encounters in the New World, regulating sexuality in the Anglo-American colonies, gender conflict and sex reform in the early nineteenth century, sexuality, race, and violence in slavery and freedom, love and initimacy in nineteenth-century America, free love, free speech, and sex consorship, prostitution and working-class sexuality, politics of reproduction, heterosexual norms and homosexual identities in popular culture, open secrets in Cold War cinema, sexual revolution, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual identities, family matters, and border crossings in contemporary America.