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Author: Martha Donkor Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793628459 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 181
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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.
Author: Martha Donkor Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793628459 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.
Author: Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Public opinion Languages : en Pages : 86
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Scholars and the general public have not paid much attention to non-rape forms of sex discrimination, such as sexual harassment. The concept is seen to suffer from ambiguity, and is often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it finally did receive attention sexual harassment was seen almost exclusively as a workplace phenomenon. The main objective of the study was to generate insight into Ghanaian perspectives on sexual harassment in relation to the definition, sites of harassment, experiences and perspectives on redress.
Author: Regina Y. Fuller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In the past decade, vociferous public and political debates about the place of Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE, a sexual rights-based form of sex education in schools have proliferated across Africa. In Ghana, the Ministry of Education introduced CSE into the public-school curriculum in 2017, and two years later, the Ministry removed CSE from schools due to strong public and religious opposition. This dissertation examines the question of how CSE, which was once accepted, became controversial in sex education policymaking from 2018 to 2021. This dissertation draws on a 3-year ethnography of the sex education battles in Accra, Ghana from 2018-2021 through meeting ethnography, interviews, and content analysis of CSE curricula documents. Through an African feminist lens and sociocultural approach to education policy, this study examines how policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and religious leaders position gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights within the debates on the content and form of school-based sex education. I argue that fights over CSE are not just concerned with content of sex education curriculum but focused on the place of gender, sexuality, and sexual rights within Ghanaian society. I posit that 3 different positions on sex education and sexual rights emerged within the fights over CSE. The first position, sexual conservatives lobbied for an abstinence-only sex education. The second position I show within these debates is that of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) advocates. SRH advocates supported CSE, sexual and reproductive health services for young people, but rejected CSE's foundation of sexual rights for young people. SRH advocates also rejected calls for a sex education curriculum that included lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender (LGBT) sexualities or sexual rights for sexual minorities. The third position I show is that of sexual rights advocates called for an LGBT rights inclusive sex education curriculum and sexual rights for sexual minorities. My dissertation expands on extant literature in Africa's sexual politics by showing how sex education policymaking is a new arena in which sexuality policies are being shaped. Moreover, this project is the first to ethnographically examine how different institutional actors contest and negotiate CSE policy for in-school children in Ghana.
Author: Serena Owusua Dankwa Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108852645 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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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.
Author: Charles Prempeh Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956553735 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 412
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Since the turn of the millennium, in Ghana and in other African countries, there has been a vociferous debate over the history and present condition of the family. The debate has largely fragmented the Ghanaian constituency into two nearly intransigent camps: those who think the indigenous family system should experience cultural osmosis to accommodate the seismic Western cultural revolutions and the overwhelming religious constituency who advocate the retention of conservative family system. This book is a contribution to the debate. Written by an African Studies academic, it seeks to use the resources of both the social sciences and religion to assess the merits of the various parties to the debate. The author believes in the legitimacy of the traditional family system as conditio sine qua non for preserving human civilization. Nevertheless, the goal of this book is not to further polarize the Ghanaian front, but build bridges, by inviting the various parties to the debate to walk the complex pathways of exercising compassion without compromising the values that support human flourishing. Charles Prempeh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana.
Author: Martha Donkor Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 149857288X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 207
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This book analyzes the etiology of child rape in Ghana within the framework of rape culture. By applying feminist perspectives and psychological theories to laws in Ghana to protect children against sexual abuse, this book creates room for both victims and perpetrators to tell their stories while also incorporating the views of the public through a textual analysis of reader comments on child rape in the nation’s newspapers. The presentation of both victims’ and perpetrators’ perspectives is done with the goal of drawing attention to the pervasiveness of child rape in Ghanaian society and to provide a lens through which we can detect potentially dangerous situations that can lead to child molestation in our homes and communities, revealing lapses in social organization and interactions that make child rape possible.
Author: Besi Brillian Muhonja Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1666917486 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this Kenya-focused volume draw from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive. They advance within Kenyan studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices, as well as approaches to doing knowledge. Underscoring the timeliness of such a text is evidence rendered in sections of the collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of analysis and epistemological derivation.
Author: Stephen O. Murray Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438484119 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 283
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Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and are widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents the presence of this diversity in some fifty societies in every region of the continent south of the Sahara. Essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines explore institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, mixed gender roles in east and west Africa, and the emergence of LGBTQ activism in South Africa, which became the first nation in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Also included are oral histories, folklore, and translations of early ethnographic reports by German and French observers. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands was the first serious study of same-sex sexuality and gender diversity in Africa, and this edition includes a new foreword by Marc Epprecht that underscores the significance of the book for a new generation of African scholars, as well as reflections on the book's genesis by the late Stephen O. Murray. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Murray Hong Family Trust. Access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1714.
Author: Martha Donkor
Author: Martha Donkor
Author: Serena Owusua Dankwa
Author: Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey
Author: Regina Y. Fuller
Author: Serena Owusua Dankwa
Author: Charles Prempeh
Author: Christine Oppong
Author: Martha Donkor
Author: Besi Brillian Muhonja
Author: Stephen O. Murray