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Naked Agency
- Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Naked Agency
- Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Côte d’Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478006886
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478006889
Udg. Dato:
6 mar 2020
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 mar 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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