Routledge handbook of queer African studies / edited by S.N. Nyeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyeck, S. N., 1977-

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory--Africa.

Queer theory.

Homosexuality--Africa.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 312 pages : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Handbook of queer African studies.

Queer African studies.

Place of Publication:

London: Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia. The Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies incorporates a range of unique perspectives, reflecting ongoing struggles between regimes of inclusion and those of transformation premised upon different relational and reflexive engagements between queer embodiment and Africa's subjectivities. All sections of this handbook blend contributions from public intellectuals and practitioners with academic reflections on topics not limited to neoliberalism, social care, morality and ethics, social education, and technology, through the lens of queer African studies. The book renders visible the ongoing transformations and resistance within African societies as well as the inventiveness of queer presence in negotiating belonging. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Africa, queer studies, and African culture and society.

Contents:

Part I: Perspectives on care. Plum leaves / Alexis Teyie

Gloves / Unoma Azuah

1. Traditional African systems of land ownership and their impact on lesbian women / Jennifer Shinta Ayebazibwe

2. Queering love : sex, care, capital, and academic prejudices / Rachel Spronk

3. Women who love women : negotiation of African traditions and kinship / Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalki

4. Queer African studies and directions in methodology / Julie Moreau and T.J. Tallie

Part II. Perspectives on participation. Where men dwell / Unoma Azuah. 1/4 cup ground cumin / Alexis Teyie. 5. LGBTIQ political participation in South Africa : the rights, the real, and the representation / Jennifer Smout (Thorpe)

6. Are you a footballer? : the radical potential of women's football at the national level / Anima Adjepong

7. The quest for belong among male sex workers and hustlers in Nairobi / Naomi van Stapele

Part III. Perspectives on morality and ethics. Holy functions / Alexis Teyie. Marked bodies / Unoma Azuah. 8. Can black queer feminists believe in God? : an exploration of feminism, sexuality, and the spiritual / Amanda Hodgeson

9. Leaky anuses, loose vaginas, and large penises : a hierarchy of sexualised bodies in the Pentecostal imaginary / Nathanael Homewood

10. Moral agency and the paradox of positionality : disruptive bodies and queer resistance in Senegalese women's soccer / Beth D. Parker

Part IV. Perspectives on techniques and technology. Liquid lives / Unoma Azuah. Powder, lace, tusker / Alexis Teyie. 11. Teaching sex times : a space for conversation and knowledge building about sex / Tiffany Kagure Mugo

12. A man with boundaries : masculinities, technology, and counterpublics in urban Accra / Heather Tucker

13. Deconstructing homosexuality in Ghana / Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Part V. Perspectives on neoliberalism. Slate / Alexis Teyie. Strange seeds / Unoma Azuah. 14. Revisiting authoritative accounts of #FeesMustFall movement and LGBTI silencing / C. Anzi Jacobs

15. Sex and money in West Africa : the "money" problem in West African sexual diversity politics / Matthew Thomann and Ashley Currier

16. Normative collusions and amphibioius evasion : the contested politics of queer self-mkaing in neoliberal Ghana / Kwame Edwin Otu

Part VI. Perspectives on negotiating social education. Tremors / Unoma Azuah. Nature / Alexis Teyie. 17. Adventures from the bedrooms of queer African women / Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

18. "We have sex but we don't talk about it" : examining silences in teaching and learning about sex and sexuality in Ghana and Ethopia / Georgina Yaa Oduro and Esther Miedema

19. Caught between worlds : Ghanian youth's views of hybrid sexuality / Angela Anarfi Gyasi-Gyamerah and Mathias Søgaard

20. Sex panics and LGBTQ children's rights to schooling / Ryan Thoreson

Pods / Unoma Azuah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-14194-5

1-351-14196-1

1-351-14195-3

9781351141963

OCLC:

1130011714