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UNINA9910585961503321 |
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Dankwa Serena Owusua <1975-> |
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Knowing women : same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana / / Serena Owusua Dankwa [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge University Press, 2021 |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2021 |
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1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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African identities: past and present |
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Lesbianism - Ghana - History |
Gender identity - Ghana |
Interpersonal relations - Ghana |
Lesbians - Ghana - Social life and customs |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021). |
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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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. |
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UNINA9910825737403321 |
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Rodensky Lisa |
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The crime in mind [[electronic resource] ] : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel / / Lisa Rodensky |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003 |
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0-19-772359-4 |
9786610482214 |
1-4294-1518-5 |
1-280-83558-3 |
1-280-48221-4 |
0-19-803435-0 |
0-19-518524-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Crime in literature |
Legal stories, English - History and criticism |
Law and literature - History - 19th century |
Criminal liability in literature |
Responsibility in literature |
Criminals in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index. |
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Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities. |
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This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period. |
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