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Author: Ashley Currier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1108427898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.
Author: Regina Y. Fuller
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past decade, vociferous public and political debates about the place of Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE, a sexual rights-based form of sex education in schools have proliferated across Africa. In Ghana, the Ministry of Education introduced CSE into the public-school curriculum in 2017, and two years later, the Ministry removed CSE from schools due to strong public and religious opposition. This dissertation examines the question of how CSE, which was once accepted, became controversial in sex education policymaking from 2018 to 2021. This dissertation draws on a 3-year ethnography of the sex education battles in Accra, Ghana from 2018-2021 through meeting ethnography, interviews, and content analysis of CSE curricula documents. Through an African feminist lens and sociocultural approach to education policy, this study examines how policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and religious leaders position gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights within the debates on the content and form of school-based sex education. I argue that fights over CSE are not just concerned with content of sex education curriculum but focused on the place of gender, sexuality, and sexual rights within Ghanaian society. I posit that 3 different positions on sex education and sexual rights emerged within the fights over CSE. The first position, sexual conservatives lobbied for an abstinence-only sex education. The second position I show within these debates is that of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) advocates. SRH advocates supported CSE, sexual and reproductive health services for young people, but rejected CSE's foundation of sexual rights for young people. SRH advocates also rejected calls for a sex education curriculum that included lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender (LGBT) sexualities or sexual rights for sexual minorities. The third position I show is that of sexual rights advocates called for an LGBT rights inclusive sex education curriculum and sexual rights for sexual minorities. My dissertation expands on extant literature in Africa's sexual politics by showing how sex education policymaking is a new arena in which sexuality policies are being shaped. Moreover, this project is the first to ethnographically examine how different institutional actors contest and negotiate CSE policy for in-school children in Ghana.
Author: Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1479852236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indian state started to fold these groups into national HIV/AIDS policies as “high-risk” groups in an attempt to create an effective response to the epidemic. Lakkimsetti argues that over time the crisis of HIV/AIDS effectively transformed the relationship between sexual minorities and the state from one that was focused on juridical exclusion to one of inclusion. The new relationship then enabled affected groups to demand rights and citizenship from the Indian state that had been previously unimaginable. By illuminating such tactics as mobilizing against a colonial era anti-sodomy law, petitioning the courts for the recognition of gender identity, and stalling attempts to criminalize sexual labor, this book uniquely brings together the struggles of sex workers, transgender people, and gay groups previously studied separately. A closely observed look at the machinations behind recent victories for sexual minorities, this book is essential reading across several fields.
Author: Eglė Česnulytė
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1108494056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of gendered agency under neoliberal structures, seen through the life stories and narratives of Kenyan sex workers.
Author: Rachel Spronk
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780253047618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImages and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.
Author: Chelsea Schields
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-24
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0429999917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism combines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising more than 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: Directions in the study of sexuality and colonialism Constructing race, controlling reproduction Sexuality in law Subjects, souls, and selfhood Pleasure and violence. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.
Author: Ellie Gore
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2024-10-10
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0472904787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV in Africa, rights-based health interventions have sought to tackle the epidemic by bringing together, educating, and ‘empowering’ queer African communities. Gore argues that queer Ghanaian men are not benefiting from development’s turn to sexual health and sexual rights. Instead, HIV and other sexual rights–based initiatives operate through neoliberal paradigms that reinforce class divides and de-politicize queer struggle. These dynamics are further shaping and shaped by the politicization of homophobia within the contemporary Ghanaian state. Gore combines original ethnography, documentary analysis, and the examination of development and global health data to connect the struggle for queer liberation in Ghana to broader trajectories of capitalist transformation and crisis and the afterlives of colonialism. In doing so, Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights offers fascinating insights into the political economy of sexuality and global development for scholars, activists, and policymakers seeking to understand and address sexual injustice and oppression, both in Africa and beyond.
Author: Melissa Hackman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-07-16
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 147800231X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn postapartheid Cape Town—Africa's gay capital—many Pentecostal men turned to "ex-gay" ministries in hopes of “curing” their homosexuality in order to conform to conservative Christian values and African social norms. In Desire Work Melissa Hackman traces the experiences of predominantly white ex-gay men as they attempt to forge a heterosexual masculinity and enter into heterosexual marriage through emotional, bodily, and religious work. These men subjected themselves to daily self-surveillance and followed prescribed behaviors such as changing how they talked and walked. Ex-gay men also saw themselves as participating in the redemption of the nation, because South African society was perceived as suffering from a crisis of masculinity in which the country lacked enough moral heterosexual men. By tying the experience of ex-gay men to the convergence of social movements and public debates surrounding race, violence, religion, and masculinity in South Africa, Hackman offers insights into the construction of personal identities in the context of sexuality and spirituality.
Author: S.N. Nyeck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1351141945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Reiland Rabaka
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 0429670621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century. The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists’ work. Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme: Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanist theories Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora Pan-Africanism in Africa Literary Pan-Africanism Musical Pan-Africanism The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.
