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Callahan, Bryan Thomas.

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Syphilis and civilization: A social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1890--1960.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Syphilis and civilization: A social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1890--1960./
Author:	Callahan, Bryan Thomas.
Description:	310 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 1083.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	History, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3046428
ISBN:	0493605657

Syphilis and civilization: A social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1890--1960.
Callahan, Bryan Thomas.

Syphilis and civilization: A social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1890--1960. - 310 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 1083.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2002.

This thesis interweaves the methodologies of discourse analysis and political economy to analyze the social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in two very different colonial environments. It focuses on the colonial period in south-central Africa, and explores the ways in which a variety of colonial constituencies—African and European alike—used debates over the perceived dangers of sexual pathology as a dynamic forum for negotiating new relations of race, class, and gender during a time of tremendous socio-economic change. It argues that we cannot properly understand the power and narrative authority of discourses on sexuality and sexually transmitted disease unless we study them within very localized contexts and examine how they resonated with contemporary concerns over the dynamics of production and reproduction in specific communities. By undertaking a comparative analysis of the history of sexually transmitted disease in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), this thesis seeks to demonstrate the critical importance of spatial location and historical context to understandings of the history of sexuality. The purpose of this approach is not to downplay the historical power of discourse in favor a neo-materialist perspective, but rather to demonstrate the ways in which an array of colonial constituencies deployed discursive formations to debate and negotiate the material circumstances of their everyday lives. Indeed, the central purpose of the work that follows is to argue that one cannot fully appreciate the power and persuasiveness of discourses on sexuality unless one is willing to explore how specific people manipulated the meaning of sexuality to achieve specific social and economic goals.

ISBN: 0493605657Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017555
History, African.

Syphilis and civilization: A social and cultural history of sexually transmitted disease in colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1890--1960.
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