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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

Alakija-Sekyi, Naa Adjeley Suta
Donkor, Martha
Gooden, Amoaba

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Series: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora

General Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1793628467
ISBN13: 9781793628466
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 25 2024
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women's perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.

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