Naked Agency : Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa /

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"Baring genitalia, or the threat thereof, as a form of protest has appeared with increasing frequency across sub-Saharan African countries since the 1990s. Naked agency provides a conceptual framework for reading African women's "defiant disrobing" not as a stable, singular event...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diabate, Naminata, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity.
Social action.
Political activists.
Human body > Political aspects.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Action sociale > Afrique subsaharienne.
Activistes > Afrique subsaharienne.
Corps humain > Aspect politique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Femmes > Activite politique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Nudite > Aspect politique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Social action > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Political activists > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Human body > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women > Political activity > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Nudity > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Exceptional nakedness
  • Restriction
  • Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics
  • Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy
  • Co-optation
  • Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self- ) instrumentalization
  • Scene 4. In the name of national interest
  • Scene 5. Film as instrumental and interpretive lens
  • Repression
  • Scene 6. Secularizing genital cursing and rhetorical backlash
  • Scene 7. Epistemic ignorance and menstrual rags in Paris
  • Scene 8. Mis(reading) murderous reactions
  • Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral.

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