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Knowing Women : Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

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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.

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306.766309667 KNO S

Publisher

United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press., 2021

Collation

ix, 332 p ; ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781108863575

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306.766309667

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Subject(s)

Gender identity
Politics and policy
Ghana
Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology,
African Studies,
African History
Interpersonal relations
Lesbianism
Lesbians--Social life and customs
African Government

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Serena Owusua Dankwa,

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