Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa publishes high quality, original scholarship from new and established scholars across the world. The series brings together research from across the humanities and social sciences and offers critical, feminist, queer, trans, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives.
Themes of the series include gender and health, LGBT movements, women’s political participation, sexual and domestic violence, pleasure, power and eroticism, same-sex intimacies, the political economy of sex, equality and media representations of gender
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Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics
1st Edition
By Carole Ammann
December 13, 2021
This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political ...
African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics: The Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
1st Edition
By Assata Zerai
March 31, 2021
How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control,...
Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya
1st Edition
By Awino Okech
March 31, 2021
This book examines the practice of widow inheritance in order to explore the intersection between power, gender and sexualities in Kenya. Using widow inheritance amongst the Luo of Kenya as a case study, the book explores the role of body politics in the construction of gendered subjects and ...
Disability and Sexuality in Zimbabwe: Voices from the Periphery
1st Edition
By Christine Peta
August 14, 2020
Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet. Until recently, most of the Global Northern published literature on the subject of the ...
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa: 16 turning 17
1st Edition
By Deevia Bhana
August 14, 2020
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and romance within the wider social and cultural...
The Tunisian Women�s Rights Movement: From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking
1st Edition
By Jane D Tchaïcha, Khedija Arfaoui
December 12, 2019
Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women’s rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has ...