Ashley Currier

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa

Homophobia in Malawi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 229mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427890
• ISBN-10: 1108427898
• Artikelnr.: 53019847

Autorenporträt

Ashley Currier is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her first book, Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa (2012), was a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Literary Book Award. Her research on gender and sexual diversity organizing in Africa has been published in Critical African Studies, Feminist Formations, Gender & Society, GLQ, Mobilization, Politique Africaine, Signs, and Women's Studies Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: politicized homophobia in Malawi
1. The politicization of same-sex sexualities in Malawi
2. Trials of love: the rise of politicized homophobia
3. The repressive 'wedge' politics of politicized homophobia
4. Arrested solidarity: why some movements do not support LGBT rights
5. Under duress: sexual minorities' perceptions about the effects of politicized homophobia
Conclusion: the reach and limits of politicized homophobia
References.