Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Thinking through Love in Africa
Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole
Chapter 1:
Love, Sex, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa
Lynn M. Thomas
Chapter 2:
Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences, and the
Construction of Romance in the 1950s and 1960s
Laura Fair
Chapter 3:
“Dear Dolly’s” Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960–1980
Kenda Mutongi
Chapter 4:
Love, Money, and Economies of Intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar
Jennifer Cole
Chapter 5:
Providing Love: Sex and Exchange in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Mark Hunter
Chapter 6:
Managing Men, Marriage, and Modern Love: Women’s Perspectives on Intimacy and Male Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria
Daniel Jordan Smith
Chapter 7:
Media and the Therapeutic Ethos of Romantic Love in Middle-Class Nairobi
Rachel Spronk
Chapter 8:
Lessons from Rubí: Love, Poverty, and the Educational Value of Televised Dramas in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
References
List of Contributors
Index