Introduction: Intimate studies and ethnographic sensitivity/Christian Groes-Green, Barbara
Ann Barrett--Running against the wind: studying reproductive norms and behaviour in
Islamic Northern Nigeria/Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Caroline Kabiru & Alex C. Ezeh--How to
avoid gender bias in gender-focused health research: methodological reflections and policy
suggestions/Doris Muhwezi Kakuru--Intimate ethnography: trust-building, transgression and
sexual cultures among Mocambican youth/Christian Groes-Green--Sex tourism on Kenya's …

embodied in the human female of reproductive age which, for all sorts of reasons, are
deemed dangerous both to their families and themselves. The ferocity of the elders'
response to the AIDS talk, and the naked girls' bafflement in the face of the beating, reveals
a world the AIDS-awareness industry will never be able to penetrate. Regarding the'politics'
of his title, McNeill provides an excellent account of the complex politics
of'traditional'authority in the former'Homeland'of Venda. Although the internal geo …