ABSTRACT

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.

The Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies incorporates a range of unique perspectives, reflecting ongoing struggles between regimes of inclusion and those of transformation premised upon different relational and reflexive engagements between queer embodiment and Africa’s subjectivities. All sections of this handbook blend contributions from public intellectuals and practitioners with academic reflections on topics not limited to neoliberalism, social care, morality and ethics, social education, and technology, through the lens of queer African studies. The book renders visible the ongoing transformations and resistance within African societies as well as the inventiveness of queer presence in negotiating belonging.

This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Africa, queer studies, and African culture and society.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part I|2 pages

Perspectives on care

chapter 2|12 pages

Queering love

Sex, care, capital, and academic prejudices

chapter 3|12 pages

Women who love women

Negotiation of African traditions and kinship

part II|2 pages

Perspectives on participation

chapter 5|13 pages

LGBTIQ political participation in South Africa

The rights, the real, and the representation

chapter 6|14 pages

Are you a footballer?

The radical potential of women’s football at the national level

part III|2 pages

Perspectives on morality and ethics

chapter 8|8 pages

Can black queer feminists believe in God?

An exploration of feminism, sexuality, and the spiritual

chapter 9|16 pages

Leaky anuses, loose vaginas, and large penises

A hierarchy of sexualized bodies in the Pentecostal imaginary

chapter 10|13 pages

Moral agency and the paradox of positionality

Disruptive bodies and queer resistance in Senegalese women’s soccer

part IV|4 pages

Perspectives on techniques and technology

chapter 11|11 pages

Teaching sex times

147A space for conversation and knowledge building about sex

chapter 12|9 pages

A man with boundaries

Masculinities, technology, and counterpublics in urban Accra

part V|2 pages

Perspectives on neoliberalism

chapter 15|13 pages

Sex and money in West Africa

The “money” problem in West African sexual diversity politics

chapter 16|12 pages

Normative collusions and amphibious evasions

The contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana

part VI|2 pages

Perspectives on negotiating social education

chapter 18|18 pages

“We have sex, but we don’t talk about it”

Examining silences in teaching and learning about sex and sexuality in Ghana and Ethiopia

chapter 19|12 pages

Caught between worlds

Ghanaian youth’s views of hybrid sexuality

chapter |1 pages

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