Knowing women : : same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana / / Serena Owusua Dankwa.
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...
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Dankwa, Serena Owusua, 1975- author. Knowing women : same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana / Serena Owusua Dankwa. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier African identities: past and present English Association for Queer Anthropology: Ruth Benedict Prize: Best Monograph, 2022. Open Access title. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021). 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. Lesbianism Ghana History. Gender identity Ghana. Interpersonal relations Ghana. Lesbians Ghana Social life and customs. 1-108-49590-7 African identities: past and present. |
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