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A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.
List of contents
Prologue: arrival stories; Introduction: freeing our imaginations; 1. Tacit erotic intimacies and the politics of indirection; 2. Supi, secrecy, and the gift of knowing; 3. 'The one who first says 'I love you'': ¿baa barima, gender, and erotic subjectivity; 4. Sugar motherhood and the collectivization of love; 5. 'Doing everything together': siblinghood, lovership, incest, family; Conclusion a fabric that never goes out of fashion; Bibliography.
About the author
Serena Owusua Dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Berne. She previously held the Sarah Pettit Fellowship at Yale University and worked as a journalist with Swiss Radio and Television. Today, she advocates for the rights and dignity of migrant women and people of colour in Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Black women's network Bla*Sh and a co-editor of the book Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und antirassistischer Widerstand (2019).
Summary
This intimate study focuses on the everyday lives of working-class women who love women in Ghana. Set in the context of the political, economic and social developments affecting people's lives across Africa, it goes beyond LGBT rights by including desires and intimacies not captured in categories of sexual identity.
Foreword
A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.
