Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of acronyms
Notes on contributors
Introduction
	Notes
PART I: Perspectives on care
	Plum Leaves
	Gloves
	1. Traditional African systems of land ownership and their impact on lesbian women
		Notes
	2. Queering love: Sex, care, capital, and academic prejudices
		Introduction
		On the production of knowledge about sexuality in Africa
		The economy of love
		Violet’s story
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	3. Women who love women: Negotiation of African traditions and kinship
		Introduction
		Ubuntu as capital
		Township lesbians navigate customary marriage and kinship
		The infra-politics and cultural labor of sexuality – black township
lesbian women
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	4. Queer African studies and directions in methodology
		Introduction
		Methodological debates in Euro-American queer studies
		Our own (queer) methodology
		Destabilizing discourses and categories
		Postcolonial approaches in queer African studies: Archive and resistance
		Transnational queer analysis of African societies
		Conclusion
		References
PART II: Perspectives on participation
	Where Men Dwell
	¼ Cup Ground Cumin
	5. LGBTIQ political participation in South Africa: The rights, the real, and the representation
		Introduction
		LGBTIQ human rights in South Africa
		The Triangle Project and Victory Institute research study
		South Africa’s political landscape since 1994
		The study: Findings and recommendations
		The survey
		Civil society findings
		Best practices for using invited spaces
		Best practices for using invented spaces
		Political party findings
		Best practice for political parties
		Conclusion
		References
	6. Are you a footballer? The radical potential of women’s football at the national level
		Introduction
		Women’s football in Africa
		The African women’s cup of nations
		Nationalism and decolonial struggle: Whither women’s sports?
		How sportswomen have come to be national representatives
		Ghana national women’s football teams: Acontradictory formation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	7. The quest for belonging among male sex workers and hustlers in Nairobi
		Introduction
		Providing to belong
		Being a
husband and lover
		Being a
son
		Being friends
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART III: Perspectives on morality and ethics
	Holy Functions
	Marked Bodies
	8. Can black queer feminists believe in God? An exploration of feminism, sexuality, and the spiritual
		References
	9. Leaky anuses, loose vaginas, and large penises: A hierarchy of sexualized bodies in the Pentecostal imaginary
		Introduction
		Pampers as markers, metaphors, and heuristics of penetrability
		Leaky anuses
		Loose vaginas
		Large penises
		An unhappy ending
		Notes
		References
	10. Moral agency and the paradox of positionality: Disruptive bodies and queer resistance in Senegalese women’s soccer
		Introduction
		Context
		Methodology
		Theoretical framework
		Findings
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
PART IV: Perspectives on techniques and technology
	Liquid Lives
	Powder, Lace, Tusker
	11. Teaching sex times: A space for conversation and knowledge building about sex
		Introduction
		Ways of working in consent and sex education spaces
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	12. A man with boundaries: Masculinities, technology, and counterpublics in urban Accra
		Introduction
		Whatsapp as central form of communication and construction of social networks
		Whatsapp, intersectionality, gender, same-sex intimacy, and social norms in accra
		WhatsApp as a
counterpublic for same-sex intimacy and gender non-conformance
		The post-colonial frictions and WhatsApp as a
space for maneuvering
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	13. Deconstructing homosexuality in Ghana
		Introduction
		Theoretical and methodological framework
		Overview of literature
		Colonialism, sexuality, and taboo
		Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religions on homosexuality
		Legal discourses on homosexuality
		Social institutions and homophobia
		Sexuality in educational spaces
		Counter discourses on homophobia in Ghana
		Reflections
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
PART V: Perspectives on neoliberalism
	Slate
	Strange Seeds
	14. Revisiting authoritative accounts of #FeesMustFall movement and LGBTI silencing
		Introduction
		Methodology
		Contextualizing #FMF
		Race in context
		Intersectionality
		Time in context: Past and present
		Student voices
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	15. Sex and money in West Africa: The “money” problem in West African sexual diversity politics
		Introduction
		The politics of sex and money in West Africa
		The specter of Western financial and ideological support in Liberia
		The defense of marriage act, mariage pour tous, and NGO politics in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	16. Normative collusions and amphibious evasions: The contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana
		Introduction
		Sassoi subjectivities amid ritualized heteronormativities
		Sassoi and LGBT human rights politics of rescue
		Amphibious subjects or evaders? Sassoi and the making of queer subjectivities
		Evading normative collusions and collisions: Sassoi as amphibious subjects
		Coda: Scrambled subjects in palimpsestic terrains
		Notes
		References
PART VI: Perspectives on negotiating social education
	Tremors
	Nature
	17. Adventures from the bedrooms of queer African women
		A
conversation with Amina
		A
conversation with Chantale
	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
		Introduction
		Background and theoretical premises of comprehensive sexuality education
		Provision of sexuality education in Ghana and Ethiopia
		Methods: Researching sexuality, HIV, and AIDS in Ghana andEthiopia
		Silence, culture, and vocabularies: Presentation of data
		Discussion and conclusion
		Notes
		References
	19. Caught between worlds: Ghanaian youth’s views of hybrid sexuality
		Introduction
		Culture and change: The gerontocratic nature of the Ghanaian society
		Cultural and religious influences
		The effect of social media
		The study
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	20. Sex panics and LGBTQ children’s rights to schooling
		Introduction
		School expulsions as a
form of moral panic
		Discursive frames and justifications
		Rights at stake
		Conclusion: What can be done?
		Notes
Pods
Bibliography
Index