02948nam 22005652 450 991058596150332120230125182611.01-108-86357-4(CKB)4100000011714188(UkCbUP)CR9781108863575(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90893(PPN)252562216(EXLCZ)99410000001171418820190816d2021|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKnowing women same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana /Serena Owusua Dankwa[electronic resource]Cambridge University Press2021Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2021.1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) digital, PDF file(s)African identities: past and presentTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).1-108-49590-7 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.African identities: past and present.LesbianismGhanaHistoryGender identityGhanaInterpersonal relationsGhanaLesbiansGhanaSocial life and customsAfrican studiesLGBT and queer studiesgender studiesfeminist theorysocial and cultural anthropologypostcolonial studiesLesbianismHistory.Gender identityInterpersonal relationsLesbiansSocial life and customs.306.76/6309667Dankwa Serena Owusua1975-1252884UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910585961503321Knowing women2904699UNINA