Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: Perspectives on Care 1. Traditional African Systems of Land Ownership and their Impact on Lesbian Women 2. Queering Love: Sex, Care, Capital, and Academic Prejudices 3. Women who Love Women: Negotiation of African Traditions and Kinship 4. Queer African Studies and Directions in Methodology Part II: Perspectives on Participation 5. LGBTIQ Political Participation in South Africa: The Rights, the Real, and the Representation 6. Are You a Footballer? The Radical Potential of Women's Football at the National Level 7. The Quest for Belonging among Male Sex Workers and Hustlers in Nairobi Part III: Perspectives on Morality and Ethics 8. Can Black Queer Feminists Believe in God? An Exploration of Feminism, Sexuality, and the Spiritual 9. Leaky Anuses, Loose Vaginas, and Large Penises: A Heirarchy of Sexualized Bodies in the Pentecostal Imaginary 10. Moral Agency and the Paradox of Positionality: Disruptive Bodies and Queer Resistance in Senegalese Women's Soccer Part IV: Perspectives on Techniques and Technology 11. Teaching Sex Times: A Space for Conversation and Knowledge Building about Sex 12. A Man with Boundaries: Masculinities, Technologies, and Counter Publics in Urban Accra 13. Deconstructing Homosexuality in Ghana Part V: Perspectives on Neoliberalism 14. Revisiting Authoritative Accounts of #FeesMustFall Movement and LGBTI Silencing 15. Sex and Money in West Africa: The "Money" Problem in West African Sexual Diversity Politics 16. Normative Collusions and Amphibious Evasions: The Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana Part VI: Perspectives on Negotiating Social Education 17. Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Queer Women 18. "We have sex, but we don't talk about it": Examining Silences in Teaching and Learning about Sex and Sexuality in Ghana and Ethiopia 19. Caught between Worlds: Ghanaian Youth's Views of Hybrid Sexuality 20. Sex Panics and LGBTQ Children's Rights to Schooling
