'Man no be wood': gender and extramarital sex in contemporary southeastern Nigeria.

From: Ahfad Journal | Date: December 1, 2002 | Copyright information

This article examines the relationship between gender and extramarital sex in southeastern Nigeria. Using ethnographic case studies from the Igbo-speaking region, analytical attention is focused on how extramarital relations are shaped by class, by rural vs. urban residence, and by the continuing importance of marriage and parenthood. The degree to which contemporary constructions of gender are increasingly defined through discourses about sexuality is explored. Sexual relations are shown to be an arena in which the aspirations, problems and contradictions of modernity are ...

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