Introduction: Sexualities

Development, 2009

Assembling on the first day of the Institute of Development Studies workshop at the University of Sussex, Brighton on 'Sexuality and the Development Industry' we were all asked to introduce ourselves. The room soon filled with the voices of people explaining their lives and histories. But we were not being called upon to identify ourselves by our country, our organization, our academic or activist pedigrees, the usual fare for international workshops. Instead we were asked to engage immediately with others as heterosexual, gay, lesbian, trans, as parents, as singles with various histories as differently engaged sexual persons. We were asked to be out and honest and enjoy it. Going to the heart of our identifies, we were turning private into public.With such a beginning the meeting was charged with energies that bowled us along during two days of intense discussion where what are usually silenced issues emerged as crucial, challenging and exciting ones for development.

Social Inclusion, 2018

In this article, 1 we look at colonialities of gender and sexuality as concepts employed in international aid and development. These international arenas reveal not only strong reiterations of modernist linear thinking and colonial continuities but also provide insights into the complexities of the implementation and vernacularisation of gender and sexuality in practices of development. Using a critical anthropological perspective, we discuss case studies based on our own research in Egypt and Bangladesh to illustrate the importance of unpacking exclusionary mechanisms of gender and sexuality scripts in the promotion of women's rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in postcolonial development contexts. We provide a conceptual analysis of decolonial feminist attempts at moving beyond the mere critique of development to enable a more inclusive conversation in the field of development. To work towards this goal, we argue, a critical anthropological approach proves promising in allowing a politically-sensitive, ethical, and critical engagement with the Other.

This paper will assess the history of the inclusion of gender and sexuality in development, examining the colonizing language and exclusionary heteronormative processes within the current development paradigm that marginalize non-male and non-normative bodies and sexualities. There is presently a need for a more localized intersectional development approach that is grounded within a feminist and anticapitalist framework (See link for full abstract and paper). Published version can be found here: http://undercurrentjournal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Undercurrent-Issue-Spring-2015.pdf

Introduction Gender and sexuality are widely recognised as being intimately related to social injustice and inequality, and intimately related to each other. We use the word 'intimately' deliberately , given the worldwide fixation with types of bodies and what they do, where, who with, how, and how often. In terms of the relationship to injustice and inequality, both gender and sexuality function as 'parallel and inter-locking' social hierarchies that shape basic relationships and access to resources and power (Collins 1993:37). Race or ethnicity and class, caste, and socioeconomic status also function in this way (and in some cultures, other hierarchies form; for example religion, or age)

2022

I write this chapter from the position of an Australian Gender and Sexuality Diversity (GSD) academic who regularly visits and collaborates with GSD organisations and individuals in Southern Africa in support of United Nations-supported initiatives and other efforts to promote GSD rights. Southern African nations vary greatly with respect to the legal rights of relevant populations. Comoros and Tanzania still criminalise same-sex sexual practices for both men and women, and eSwatini criminalises these for men only, while six countries protect GSD rights to a substantial degree (most notably South Africa, Mozambique and Seychelles). Overall, the southern part of the continent shows a stronger trend towards non-discriminatory legislation compared to the north, west, east or central regions and has contributed significantly towards regional and global rights recognition in ways assisting Australia (my context). Against this background, this chapter identified a number of Southern African transnational contributions to GSD issues, with a particular focus on education, drawing on the author’s recent research.

Anuário Antropológico, 2021

In the last 25 years, a considerable number of texts by African researchers have been published dealing with the expressions of gender and sexual gender diversity on the African continent from the perspective of the social sciences. The texts have in common the relationship they present between sexuality, national state, and globalization, considering the effects of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. I intend here to present a summary of the main ideas developed in some of these publications to a public of Portuguese-speaking readers in order to promote some comparative reflections on sexuality in the Global South.

Ids Bulletin-institute of Development Studies, 2006

Introduction New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa Marc Epprecht, Queen’s University Sexualités africaines contemporaines: nouvelles perspectives. Charles Gueboguo, Université de Yaoundé 1. Articles “The widow, the will, and widow-inheritance in Kampala: revisiting victimisation arguments,” Stella Nyanzi, Maragaret Emodu, Wilberforce Serwaniko 7100 words Faith in God, but not in Condoms: Churches and Competing Visions of HIV Prevention in Namibia, Nicole Rigillo 8537 words Deaf, gay, HIV positive and proud: Narrating an alternative identity in post apartheid South Africa, Ruth Morgan, Karin Willemse with John Meletse 8529 “Mombasa Morans:” Embodiment, Sexual Morality and Samburu Men in Kenya, George Paul Meiu 8932 Transactions sexuelles: sur les rétributions des pratiques homosexuelles à Bamako Christophe Broqua 7977 Penser les ‘droits’ des homosexuels/les en Afrique: du sens et de la puissance de l’action associative militante au Cameroun Charles Gueboguo 7550 Book Review Essays “African feminists on sexualities” Signe Arnfred 3000 Feminist Africa, issues 5 (2005) and 6 (2006) Agenda, issues 62 (2004), 63 (2005), 67 (2006) “Sexualities, Pleasure and Politics in Southern Africa” Bodil Fredericksen 2200 Graeme Reid and Liz Walker, guest editors, Sex and Secrecy, special issue of Culture, Health and Sexualty, 7 (3), 2005 Deevia Bhana, Robert Morrell, Jeff Hearn and Relebohile Moletsane, guest editors, Sexualities in Southern Africa, special issue of Sexualities 10 (2), 2007 “Southern African Homosexualities and Denials” Stephen O. Murray 1945 Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe. Unspoken Facts: A History of African Homosexualities Harare: GALZ 2007. 321+xi pp. Hoad, Neville. African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2007. 187 + xxxiii pp. Spurlin, William J. Imperialism within the Margins: Queer Representations and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006. 182+ ix pp. Contre l’homophobie en Afrique (version française) Patrick Awondo 1289 Charles Gueboguo, La question homosexuelle en Afrique. Le cas du Cameroun. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2006. 187 pp. Eboussi Boulaga (ed.), Terroirs, « L’homosexualité est bonne à penser », n°1-2/2007 Yaoundé: Académia Africana, 2007. 311 pp. “African Perspectives on Female Circumcision” Amy Kaler 1733 Mary Nyangweso Wangila. Female Circumcision: The Interplay of Religion, Culture and Gender in Kenya. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2007. 206 pp. Obioma Nnaemeka ed. Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses. New York: Praeger, 2005. 296 pp. “Same sex-sexuality issues in some African popular media” Unoma Azuah 1100 Dibia, Jude. Walking with Shadows. Sands Press, Lagos, Nigeria, 2005. Aidoo, Ama, Ata (ed.) African Love Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, London, 2006. Book Reviews Sévérin Cécile Abéga, Violence Sexuelle et l’État au Cameroun (Karthala 2007). Sybille N. Nyeck Julia Carter The Heart of Whiteness (Duke UP: 2007). Barrington Walker Catherine M Cole, Takyiwa Manuh and Stephan F Miescher (eds.) Africa After Gender (2007) Brigitte Bagnol Cary Alan Johnson. Off the Map: How HIV/AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa. (New York: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007). 124 pp. Amanda Swarr Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa (eds). Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa. (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2005). Sam Bullington 997 Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Richmond Tiemoko and Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye (eds), Human Sexuality in Africa: Beyond reproduction (Auckland Park, Fanele Jacana Media, 2007). Robert Morrell 1280 Nattrass, Nicoli. Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa. (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007). Mary Caesar 800 Stephanie Newell. The Forgers Tale: The Search for Odeziaku. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). Taiwo Oluntorubo-Oju Alexander Rödlach. Witches, Westerners and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa. (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006). Allison Goebel T. Shefer, K. Ratele, A. Strebel, N. Shabalala and R. Buikema (eds.) From Boys to Men: Social constructions of masculinity in contemporary society. (Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press, 2007). Mikki van Zyl 921 WORKS CITED

Development, 2009

This article looks at how the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has participated in, contributed to, and been shaped by debates around gender and sexuality. Through interviews with key participants in the gender and sexuality research story of IDS, we explore certain periods and themes over the last four decades. These are the introduction of gender research at IDS in the 1970s, the development of the MA Gender and Development (GAD) in partnership with the University of Sussex in the late 1980s; the co-construction of knowledge with the development of BRIDGE in the 1990s; and the Pathways of Women's Empowerment programme, gender myths and sexuality, and the emergence of work on men and masculinity from 2000. These selected stories highlight the particular strength of IDS' convening role in creating the spaces for academics, activists and others to come together to politicise the dialogues by revealing normative assumptions often taken for granted in gender and sexuality.