Stella Nyanzi
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Ugandan medical anthropologist, human rights defender, social justice activist, politician, poet and Facebooker
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Stella Nyanzi's Degrees
- Bachelors Social Sciences Makerere University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stella Nyanzi is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She was arrested in 2017 for insulting the Ugandan president. In January 2022, she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.
Stella Nyanzi's Published Works
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- The negotiation of sexual relationships among school pupils in south-western Uganda (2001) (186)
- Attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing for HIV among pregnant women in rural south-west Uganda (2001) (162)
- Female control of sexuality: illusion or reality? Use of vaginal products in south west Uganda. (2001) (110)
- Men's attitudes to condoms and female controlled means of protection against HIV and STDs in south-western Uganda (2000) (86)
- Socializing influences and the value of sex: The experience of adolescent school girls in rural Masaka, Uganda (2000) (84)
- Bumsters, big black organs and old white gold: Embodied racial myths in sexual relationships of Gambian beach boys (2005) (76)
- Dismantling reified African culture through localised homosexualities in Uganda (2013) (61)
- Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in southwest Uganda (2004) (56)
- Money, men and markets: Economic and sexual empowerment of market women in southwestern Uganda (2005) (54)
- Women's attitudes to condoms and female-controlled means of protection against HIV and STDs in south-western Uganda. (1999) (50)
- ‘I never thought that this baby would survive; I thought that it would die any time’: perceptions and care for preterm babies in eastern Uganda (2010) (49)
- Traditional birth attendants in rural Gambia: beyond health to social cohesion. (2007) (45)
- The social-political dynamics of the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda (2015) (38)
- "Abortion? That's for women!" Narratives and experiences of commercial motorbike riders in south-western Uganda. (2005) (31)
- Breastfeeding practices and attitudes relevant to the vertical transmission of HIV in rural south-west Uganda (2001) (30)
- Male Promiscuity (2009) (30)
- Ambivalence Surrounding Elderly Widows’ Sexuality in Urban Uganda (2011) (26)
- ‘African Sex is Dangerous!’ Renegotiating ‘Ritual Sex’ in Contemporary Masaka District (2008) (23)
- Contemporary Myths, Sexuality Misconceptions, Information Sources, and Risk Perceptions of Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda (2005) (22)
- Queer Pride and Protest: A Reading of the Bodies at Uganda’s First Gay Beach Pride (2014) (22)
- Homosexuality, Sex Work, and HIV/AIDS in Displacement and Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Refugees in Uganda (2013) (21)
- The Widow, the Will, and Widow-inheritance in Kampala: Revisiting Victimisation Arguments (2009) (19)
- Widowed mama-grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda (2009) (12)
- How to be a 'proper' woman in the time of AIDS (2007) (9)
- The Negotiation of Masculinities by Motorbike Taxi-Riders in Masaka, Uganda (2009) (8)
- Ethnography and PRA among Gambian traditional birth attendants: a methods discussion (2007) (8)
- The adventures of the Randy Professor and Angela the Sugar Mummy: Sex in fictional serials in Ugandan popular magazines (2005) (7)
- Empowering Traditional Birth Attendants in the Gambia: A Local Strategy to Redress Issues of Access, Equity and Sustainability? (2008) (6)
- From minuscule biomedical models to sexuality's depths (2006) (6)
- Ghettoisation, Migration or Sexual Connection? Negotiating Survival Among Gambian Male Youths (2010) (5)
- "Better a dead child than a dry womb!" reproduction and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006) (5)
- Putting the Law in its Place: Analyses of recent developments in law relating to same-sex desire in India and Uganda (2014) (4)
- "Its more than cash!" Debunking myths about 'sugar-daddy' relationships in Africa (2004) (4)
- Debate: The Role of Faith Healing in an HIV High-Risk Area: a Case Study of Balokole Churches in Masaka District, Uganda (2003) (3)
- Contested Terrains of Women of Color and Third World Women (2017) (3)
- Attitudes to Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV Among Pregnant Women and Maternity Staff in Rural South West Uganda (2000) (3)
- ‘Sleeping with my dead husband’s brother!’ The impact of HIV and AIDS on widowhood and widow inheritance in Kampala, Uganda (2011) (2)
- Widowhood, land wrangles and social stigma in the face of HIV/AIDS in Southwestern Uganda (2004) (2)
- When the State Produces Hate: Re-thinking the Global Queer Movement through Silence in The Gambia (2015) (2)
- Personal Narrative: Bloody Precarious Activism in Uganda (2020) (2)
- Passive victims or active agents? Experiences of widow inheritance in Uganda. (2008) (1)
- Redressing the Silofication between Sexuality and Development: A Radical Revisioning (2016) (1)
- Politicizing the ‘Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah’: Examining the Christian Rightists’ War Against Homosexuality in Uganda (2013) (0)
- Foreword (2021) (0)
- Balancing an Unequal Partnership for Studying Ugandan Queer Refugees’ Appropriation of Bible Stories (2023) (0)
- Of interest to researchers, advocates, policy makers, programme managers, community workers and practitioners, the conference will provide opportunities for discussion of cutting edge issues including (2015) (0)
- Safety , Sexuality and Wellness : Would Uncertainty Rather Than Risk Approach Serve Better ? (2008) (0)
- Negotiating scripts for meaningful sexuality an ethnography of youths in the Gambia (2008) (0)
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