Love and Desire: Concepts, Narratives and Practives of Sex Amongst Youths in Maputo City

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Sandra Manuel
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Editée par Sandra Manuel

CODESRIA, ISBN: 2-86978-191-1; ISBN 13: 978-2-86978-191-7; 75 pages, 2008

This monograph analyses the perceptions and practices of sexuality among young people in post-colonial and post-socialist Maputo city. Using a combination of various methods, it compares sexuality in two different generation and describes two diverse kinds of relationships: the occasional and steady.

Occasional relationships tend to show a new pattern of condom use that corroborates the discourse advocated in the prevention of HIV/AIDS; and the steady where sex is proposition of commitment on the part of young men, and where, there are major possibilities of HIV/AIDS infection. In both kinds of relationships, sex, described by informants in terms of a model of heterosexual penetration, is perceived as a factor that permits transition from childhood to adulthood, by passing parental and other senior kin control.

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Sandra Manuel

is a social anthropologist, an Assistant Professor at University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) and a researcher at Kaleidoscopio Research Institute on Culture and Public Policy. Her teaching, research, and policy analysis focuses on the social analysis of body, gender, sexuality, and health themes. Her research questions normative gendered notions, looking at the intersectionality of gendered relations and understanding socio-cultural readings of the body and sexuality, specifically in the African context. Her latest journal publication is titled “Performing respect: Contemporary strategies and lived experiences in intimate relationships in Maputo” (2021 Journal of African Cultural Studies). She is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Anthropology Southern Africa. Her university work also comprised a planning dimension as she served as the Adviser for the UEM Vice-Chancellor.

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juin 26, 2008

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