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The media coverage of President Jacob Zuma and the "problem" of his foreign and potentially threatening polygamy reveals the long-extant gendered and raced fault lines of the presumably postcolonial relationship between Britain and South Africa. The discourses in the British press that marked Zuma as a "buffoon," "barbaric," and less civilized than his "distinctly monogamous" hosts can be traced to nineteenth-century settler colonial regimes and their violent attempts at reordering the lands and peoples they sought to occupy and replace. The arrival of British settlers in the nineteenth-century colony of Natal brought them into conflict with the Zulu peoples they sought to supplant and exploit. A reading of emigrant letters, missionary pamphlets, and newspaper correspondence reveals that the persistence of the practice of isithembu (polygamy) and ilobolo (the ritual exchange of cattle upon marriage) among Zulus in the face of British attempts to control their social and political formations challenged the very heart of the settler project. As British settlers sought to create and define a "modern" sexuality predicated on a heteronormative family unit, polygamy became the flashpoint in a biopolitical battle between colonists and indigenous peoples in Natal. For settlers, polygamy failed at being properly heteronormative, instead indicating an overweening hyper-heterosexuality in Zulu men. As a result, to white observers, polygamy presented a dangerous and disruptive challenge to the gendered, raced, and sexual order they wished to construct — in short, it became queer. The destabilizing queer potential of indigenous polygamy to the settler project reveals the assumptions about sexuality, civilization, and conjugality that underwrite colonial aspiration and postimperial anxieties.

Intro -- NATAL SIGNS: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- NADYA BURTON Introduction -- 1. LOOKING AT PREGNANCY LAUREN CRUIKSHANK What to Expect When Your Avatar is Expecting Representations of Pregnancy and Birth in Video Games -- MICHELLE WALKS Masculine Pregnancy Butch Lesbians', Trans Men's & -- Genderqueer Individuals' Experiences1 -- K. J. SURKAN That Fat Man is Giving Birth Gender Identity, Reproduction and the Pregnant Body -- DAMIEN W. RIGGS AND DEBORAH DEMPSEY Gay Men's Narratives of Pregnancy in the Context of Commercial Surrogacy -- BRESCIA NEMBER REID Crone and Moon, Umbilical Cords/Blood Ties -- JENNIFER LONG Imminent -- ELIZABETH ALLEMANG Heroes and Villains Representations of Midwives in Ontario's Late Twentieth Century Midwifery Revival -- MARY SHARPE AND KORY MCGRATH Spacemaking and Midwifery With, Within, Without -- 2. LOOKING AT BIRTH CLAIRE DION FLETCHER AND CHERYLLEE BOURGEOIS Refusing Delinquency, Reclaiming Power Indigenous Women and Childbirth -- ALYS EINION Resistance and Submission A Critique of Representations of Birth -- ANNA HENNESSEY Representations of Birth and Motherhood as Contemporary Forms of the Sacred -- NATALIE JOLLY Does Labour Mean Work? A Look at the Meaning of Birth in Amish and Non-Amish Society -- JEANNE LYONS Representing Birth An Inquiry into Art Making and Birth Giving: Implications for Teaching Student Midwives -- MARNI KOTAK Birth is a Labour of Art -- ARA PARKER Split Open -- ROSIE ROSENZWEIG Flower of My Flesh -- SUSAN HOGAN, CHARLOTTE BAKER, SHELAGH CORNISH, PAULA MCCLOSKEY AND LISA WATTS Birth Shock Exploring Pregnancy, Birth, and the Transition to Motherhood Using Participatory Arts -- KORY MCGRATH AND LYNN FARRALES Making Meaning of Stillbirth.

Unter den diskutierten Möglichkeiten eines neuen Regierungssystems in Südafrika spielt die 'Natal Option' - die angestrebte gemeinsame Rechtsprechung und Verwaltung der Provinz Natal einschl. des Homelands KwaZulu durch alle in Natal vertretenen Bevölkerungsgruppen - als Testfall für eine gesamtnationale Lösung eine prominente Rolle. Beginn der Verhandlungen und Teilnehmer. Rolle von Buthelezi; angestrebte Ziele; Opposition von links und rechts; Reaktionen von Wissenschaft und Politik. Probleme gibt es vor allem dadurch, daß die zu erwartenden Beschlüsse der KwaNatal-Indaba (inzwischen liegen sie vor - d. Red.) noch bestehende zentrale Apartheidsgesetze berühren und den von Pretoria als unverzichtbar angesehenen Minderheitenschutz nicht ausreichend berücksichtigen. (DÜI-Hlb)

Fragen, die sich bei der propagierten Vereinigung von Natal und KwaZulu zu KwaNatal stellen. Eingegangen wird auf die verschiedenen Bevölkerungsgruppen, die Besonderheit des Zulu-Problems, das Mißtrauen der Inder, die Bedrohung des Planes durch mögliche äußere Faktoren und weitere Probleme bei der Homogenisierung (z.B. wirtschaftliches Ungleichgewicht zwischen Natal und KwaZulu). (DÜI-Ott)