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Title Money, Morals, and Modernity: Making Sense of Same-Sex Sexualities in Malawi
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8st7222g
Date 2012
Author(s) McKay, Tara
Abstract Usingethnographic and archival data from Malawi, a small, heavily aid dependent country and former British colony, this paper examines Malawians' attitudes toward homosexuality vis-à-vis the country's history of colonization and the realities of Malawi's economic dependence on donor governments. I demonstrate that Malawians' understandings of same-sex sexuality go beyond homosexuality as a moral affront to conservative religious ideas.Rather, the framing of sexual diversity as a neocolonialist project has gained substantial traction among Malawians, providing a foundation for the development of an anti-Western and anti-gay Malawian national identity.
Subject(s) Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies; Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies; Health Professions and Related Programs; Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General; African Studies; Africa; sexuality; homophobia; policy; human rights; health; democracy; Malawi
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source McKay, Tara. (2012). Money, Morals, and Modernity: Making Sense of Same-Sex Sexualities in Malawi. UC Los Angeles: UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8st7222g
Rights cc6
Identifier qt8st7222g
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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