Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar
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Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar’s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture.
Jennifer Cole’s elegant analysis shows how this notion of generational change is both wrong and consequential. It obscures the ways young people draw on long-standing ideas of gender and sexuality, it ignores how urbanites relate to their rural counterparts, and it neglects the relationship between these husband-seeking women and their elders who join Pentecostal churches. And yet, as talk about the women circulates through the city’s neighborhoods, bars, Internet cafes, and churches, it teaches others new ways of being.
Cole’s sophisticated depiction of how a generation’s coming of age contributes to social change eschews a narrow focus on crisis. Instead, she reveals how fantasies of rupture and conceptions of the changing life course shape the everyday ways that people create the future.
Jennifer Cole
Jennifer Cole studied biological anthropology at Cambridge University and has a PhD in Computer Science from Royal Holloway University of London. She worked in publishing from 1994-2007 and then as a Senior Research Fellow in a policy think tank from 2007-2017, where her portfolio covered cyber security, pandemic response and crisis communications. She returned to academic full-time in 2017 first with Oxford University and then Royal Holloway, where she is now based in the Geography Department, School of Life Sciences and the Environment. She has moderated major online disease outbreak discussion forums for Ebola, Zika, Nipah virus and COVID-19, is a regular media commentator, and was part of the first cohort to undertake World Health Organization Infodemic Manager training 2020.
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