African Identities: Past and Present #: Knowing Women

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

African Identities: Past and Present #: Knowing Women
Serena Owusua Dankwa
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21 Jan 2021 UK
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9781108495905
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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.

Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
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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).
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ISBN-13: 9781108495905
Published: 21 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 613g
Pages: 320

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