Diabate Naked Agency

Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0757-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Theory in Forms

Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women's political agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diabate, Naminata

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1
Section I. Restriction
Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29
Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43
Section II. Co-operation
Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65
Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89
Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107
Section III. Repression
Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131
Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149
Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175
Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191
Notes 197
References 219
Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Naminata Diabate is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.