Knowing Women

Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

AvSerena Owusua Dankwa

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of sexual identity. Paying close attention to the women's practices of self-reference, Dankwa refers to them as 'knowing women' in a way that both distinguishes them from, and relates them to categories such as lesbian or supi, a Ghanaian term for female friend. In doing so, this study is not only a significant contribution to the field of global queer studies in which both women and Africa have been underrepresented, but a starting point to further theorize the relation between gender, kinship, and sexuality that is key to queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-10
Mått:152 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African Identities: Past and Present
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108811026

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Serena Owusua Dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Berne. She previously held the Sarah Pettit Fellowship at Yale University and worked as a journalist with Swiss Radio and Television. Today, she advocates for the rights and dignity of migrant women and people of colour in Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Black women's network Bla*Sh and a co-editor of the book Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und antirassistischer Widerstand (2019).

Recensioner i media

'This remarkable book deserves a wide audience … Theoretically subtle and accessible and beautifully written … Highly recommended.' C. Higgs, Choice Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: arrival stories; Introduction: freeing our imaginations; 1. Tacit erotic intimacies and the politics of indirection; 2. Supi, secrecy, and the gift of knowing; 3. 'The one who first says 'I love you'': ɔbaa barima, gender, and erotic subjectivity; 4. Sugar motherhood and the collectivization of love; 5. 'Doing everything together': siblinghood, lovership, incest, family; Conclusion a fabric that never goes out of fashion; Bibliography.