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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

Author : Martha Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628459
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies written by Martha Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.

Gender, Sexuality and Development

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 908790472X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a timely contribution to the field of gender and development in the face of the looming failure of international development targets, the deepening HIV/AIDS pandemic and the increased incidence of civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Knowing Women

Author : Serena Owusua Dankwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495907
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Women written by Serena Owusua Dankwa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.

Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS

Author : Christine Oppong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS written by Christine Oppong and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by various authors.

Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies

Author : Besi Brillian Muhonja
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666917486
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies by : Besi Brillian Muhonja

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies written by Besi Brillian Muhonja and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this Kenya-focused volume draw from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive. They advance within Kenyan studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices, as well as approaches to doing knowledge. Underscoring the timeliness of such a text is evidence rendered in sections of the collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of analysis and epistemological derivation.

Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Author : Lydia Boyd
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932740X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa written by Lydia Boyd and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, a more formalized and forceful shift has emerged in the legislative realm when it comes to gender and sexual justice in Africa. This rigorous, timely volume brings together leading and rising scholars across disciplines to evaluate these ideological struggles and reconsider the modern history of human rights on the continent. Broad in geographic coverage and topical in scope, chapters investigate such subjects as marriage legislation in Mali, family violence experienced by West African refugees, sex education in Uganda, and statutes criminalizing homosexuality in Senegal. These case studies highlight the nuances and contradictions in the varied ways key actors make arguments for or against rights. They also explore how individual countries draft and implement laws that attempt to address the underlying problems. Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa details how legal efforts in the continent can often be moralizing enterprises, illuminating how these processes are closely tied to notions of ethics, personhood, and citizenship. The contributors provide new appraisals of recent events, with fresh arguments about the relationships between local and global fights for rights. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars in African studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies.

Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies

Author : Babacar M'Baye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793601135
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies written by Babacar M'Baye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, and development studies, among others, Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, centering within Senegalese studies themes and elements of alternative, nonbinary, variant, and nonheteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices. Contributors demonstrate that nationalist and anticolonial discourses propelled by deep and lingering socioeconomic inequalities have led, in postcolonial Senegal, to vitriolic scapegoating of individuals and communities with variant sexual and gender identities. The chapters in this volume look inward to the voices and experiences of the Senegalese people to challenge nationalist representations of advocacy for the liberation of gender and sexual minorities in Senegal as a function of a Western neocolonialist agenda.

Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana

Author : Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana written by Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and the general public have not paid much attention to non-rape forms of sex discrimination, such as sexual harassment. The concept is seen to suffer from ambiguity, and is often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it finally did receive attention sexual harassment was seen almost exclusively as a workplace phenomenon. The main objective of the study was to generate insight into Ghanaian perspectives on sexual harassment in relation to the definition, sites of harassment, experiences and perspectives on redress.

Boy-Wives and Female Husbands

Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484119
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Boy-Wives and Female Husbands written by Stephen O. Murray and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and are widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents the presence of this diversity in some fifty societies in every region of the continent south of the Sahara. Essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines explore institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, mixed gender roles in east and west Africa, and the emergence of LGBTQ activism in South Africa, which became the first nation in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Also included are oral histories, folklore, and translations of early ethnographic reports by German and French observers. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands was the first serious study of same-sex sexuality and gender diversity in Africa, and this edition includes a new foreword by Marc Epprecht that underscores the significance of the book for a new generation of African scholars, as well as reflections on the book's genesis by the late Stephen O. Murray. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Murray Hong Family Trust. Access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1714.

Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553735
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana written by Charles Prempeh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the millennium, in Ghana and in other African countries, there has been a vociferous debate over the history and present condition of the family. The debate has largely fragmented the Ghanaian constituency into two nearly intransigent camps: those who think the indigenous family system should experience cultural osmosis to accommodate the seismic Western cultural revolutions and the overwhelming religious constituency who advocate the retention of conservative family system. This book is a contribution to the debate. Written by an African Studies academic, it seeks to use the resources of both the social sciences and religion to assess the merits of the various parties to the debate. The author believes in the legitimacy of the traditional family system as conditio sine qua non for preserving human civilization. Nevertheless, the goal of this book is not to further polarize the Ghanaian front, but build bridges, by inviting the various parties to the debate to walk the complex pathways of exercising compassion without compromising the values that support human flourishing. Charles Prempeh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana.

Child Rape in Ghana

Author : Martha Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149857288X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Child Rape in Ghana written by Martha Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the etiology of child rape in Ghana within the framework of rape culture. By applying feminist perspectives and psychological theories to laws in Ghana to protect children against sexual abuse, this book creates room for both victims and perpetrators to tell their stories while also incorporating the views of the public through a textual analysis of reader comments on child rape in the nation’s newspapers. The presentation of both victims’ and perpetrators’ perspectives is done with the goal of drawing attention to the pervasiveness of child rape in Ghanaian society and to provide a lens through which we can detect potentially dangerous situations that can lead to child molestation in our homes and communities, revealing lapses in social organization and interactions that make child rape possible.

The Sex Lives of African Women

Author : Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1662650825
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Sex Lives of African Women written by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dazzling... the tone is hopeful, resilient and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Touching, joyful, defiant -- and honest." —The Economist, a best book of the year Celebrate African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure and liberation in this empowering, subversive collection of intimate stories. In these confessional pages, women control their own bodies and desires, work toward healing their painful pasts, and learn to assert their sexual power. Weaving a rich tapestry of experiences with a sex positive outlook, The Sex Lives of African Women is an empowering, subversive book that celebrates the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women's multifaceted sexuality. From a queer community in Egypt, to polyamorous life in Senegal, and a reflection on the intersection of religion and pleasure in Cameroon, feminist author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores the many layers of love and desire, its expression, and how it defines who we are. Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex for her blog, “Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.” For this book she spoke to over 30 African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom.

Sexual Stratification

Author : Alice Schlegel
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Stratification written by Alice Schlegel and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The assumption of universal male dominance is called into question in Sexual Stratification, which presents empirical evidence for its absence. These fourteen original papers, plus an introduction and overview by the author, are case studies that include societies where male dominance predominates, such as Sicily, through societies in which dominance is qualified, such as Yuruba, to more egalitarian societies, such as the Bontoc and the Israeli kibbutz. Stratification is examined empirically in both traditional and modern societies and theoretically in terms of power and autonomy in economic and social structures. In addition, an assessment is made of the role ideology plays in establishing norms for sex roles and statuses."--Jacket.

Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa

Author : J. Jarpa Dawuni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793632685
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa written by J. Jarpa Dawuni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice, edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni, propounds layered intersectionality as a paradigm for examining how gendered factors affect women's access to justice, whether as judges or litigants. Through intersectional and decolonial frameworks, the contributors analyze the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges). This book examines patterns of mutually reinforcing discriminatory practices that women share based on common gender identities and depending on which identities are at play at a given point in time in both traditional and statutory courts. The book provides recommendations for various justice sector providers.

Gender, Sexuality and Mothering in Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592218615
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Mothering in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume fills an important gap in our understanding of the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the phenomenon of mothering in African societies. Essays present the social construction of marriage, mothering, and widowhood and discuss the various ways in which marriages were negotiated, the impact of increasing teenage pregnancies and non-formal educational techniques on unwed teenage mothers, the effects of gendered violence on women, as well as the myriad ways in which violence manifests itself in the lives of women as viewed through the prisms of some literary works and dramas. The volume also provides compelling analyses about the increasingly important role of the legal sphere in mediating the conditionality of African women as well as the complex interplay between religion, sexuality, and politics, most especially as they impinge on the roles and status of African women. The chapters demonstrate quite convincingly that African women's roles are constantly evolving in response to numerous changes in societies and the global economy. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars, students, women's organizations, non-governmental organizations, politicians, public policy advocates, and members of the public at large." -- Publisher's description

Readings in Sexualities from Africa

Author : Rachel Spronk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253047641
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Sexualities from Africa written by Rachel Spronk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images 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.

Postcolonial Imbusa

Author : Mutale Mulenga Kaunda
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666926256
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Imbusa written by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using decolonial and postcolonial nego-feminism, Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems examines the daily lives of Bemba women and how imbusa has defined the behaviors and relations between women and men at home, church, and work.