TY - BOOK ID - 32828219 TI - The Erotics of History : An Atlantic African Example PY - 2018 SN - 0520296311 9780520968875 9780520296312 0520968875 PB - Oakland University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology KW - Fetishism (Sexual behavior) KW - Erotica KW - Sex role KW - Africans KW - History. KW - Sexual behavior KW - Africa KW - Social conditions KW - Ethnology KW - Eroticism KW - Pornography KW - Fetishes, Sexual KW - Sexual fetishes KW - Sexual fetishism KW - Paraphilias KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - adult. KW - african fetish. KW - african. KW - atlantic africa. KW - bdsm. KW - cosmopolitan connection. KW - cultural construction. KW - erotic. KW - european men. KW - fetish. KW - foreign commodities. KW - gay men. KW - gender studies. KW - historical circumstance. KW - individual discovery. KW - learning about sex. KW - lgbt demographic studies. KW - local social pressure. KW - long term sexual relationships. KW - master slave relationship. KW - sex condition. KW - sexual excitement. KW - sexuality. KW - slaves. KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32828219 AB - "The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement."--Provided by publisher. ER -