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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Perspectives on care
part II|2 pages
Perspectives on participation
chapter 5|13 pages
LGBTIQ political participation in South Africa
chapter 6|14 pages
Are you a footballer?
part III|2 pages
Perspectives on morality and ethics
chapter 8|8 pages
Can black queer feminists believe in God?
chapter 9|16 pages
Leaky anuses, loose vaginas, and large penises
chapter 10|13 pages
Moral agency and the paradox of positionality
part IV|4 pages
Perspectives on techniques and technology
chapter 12|9 pages
A man with boundaries
part V|2 pages
Perspectives on neoliberalism
chapter 15|13 pages
Sex and money in West Africa
chapter 16|12 pages
Normative collusions and amphibious evasions
part VI|2 pages
Perspectives on negotiating social education