Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs

Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81962-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Gender

Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria explores how Nigerian women use traditional aphrodisiacs, known as kayan mata, to navigate intimacy, power, and survival in a rapidly evolving society.

From Northern Nigeria's aphrodisiac markets to Instagram's digital culture, the study explores how kayan mata products are used to negotiate love, autonomy, and material security within cultural, religious, and economic constraints. Drawing on participants' lived experiences and African feminist theories, such as nego-feminism, this book highlights the complex and adaptive nature of women's sexual agency. It challenges readers to rethink agency by showing how everyday acts of desire, beauty, and spirituality may also serve as strategies of resistance and self-determination within intimate domains.

Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria will be of interest to both students and scholars of gender studies, anthropology, African studies, feminist theory, and cultural sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alabi, Oluwatobi Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Desire, power, and the politics of intimacy in Nigeria 1. Traditional aphrodisiacs, intimacy, and empowerment in Nigeria 2. Navigating complexity: Evolving family structures and intimate relationship dynamics in Nigeria 3. Negotiating feminism: Cultural dynamics, sexual agency, and empowerment 4. Exploring the evolution and cultural significance of aphrodisiacs 5. Empowerment and Agency 6. Beyond kayan mata: gender and morality in intimate relationships 7. Sexuality, agency, and intimate politics 8. Theorizing sexual agency and empowerment 9. Family and marriage in 21st century Nigeria: An exploration of social change and institutional influences 10. Critical reflection on sexuality research in Nigeria: Epistemology, fieldwork and researcher's positionality Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Oluwatobi Joseph Alabi is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.