Overview
- Enriches contemporary scholarship on gender and sexualities, post-conflict reconstruction and culturally-relevant research methodologies
- Offers new insights for the study of women’s agency in Africa
- Will be of interest to academics working in the field of gender-based violence, sexuality studies, and narrative research
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About this book
This book explores the textures of women’s narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality. Postcolonial feminist scholars in Africa highlight the importance of moving beyond Westernised lenses of ‘African’ women’s powerlessness, towards a focus on women’s culturally-specific sexual agency. However, few studies explore women’s psychological experiences of sexual oppression/agency in real depth. Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa traces the narratives of heterosexual migrant women from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Congo. The book offers insight into women’s experiences ‘back home,’ travelling through border posts in Africa, and life in current post-apartheid South Africa. Through a unique collectively-based methodology and a feminist poststructuralist lens, the author examines narrative strategies used by the women to manage and psychologically resist harmful discourses surrounding female sexuality and women’s bodies. The book offers rich exploration of the intersections of gender and sexuality, class, race and citizenship situating the narratives within the wider context of poverty and migration in sub-Saharan Africa. These vectors of oppression are illuminated throughout the text via integrated threads of the researcher’s positionality in relation to the women narrators.
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Book Title: Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa
Book Subtitle: Collective Stories of Trauma and Transition
Authors: Samantha van Schalkwyk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97825-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97824-6Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07411-1Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97825-3Published: 06 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 192
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Self and Identity, Violence and Crime, Gender Studies