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...Thomas Hendriks First, some noteworthy similarities. Both in postcolonial Congo and Ghana, rumors about the supposedly “occult” nature of same-sex sexual practices circulate widely. Dankwa, for instance, notes how Ghanaian video-films feed on, visualize, and spread popular beliefs about “lesbian...

...Serena Owusua Dankwa [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 I am very grateful to Aminata Mbaye, Rachel Spronk, and Thomas Hendriks for their insightful and rich responses—and indeed extensions—to my book Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender...

...Aminata Cécile Mbaye [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Serena Owusua Dankwa's remarkable book Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana offers a refreshing perspective on the representation of same-sex...

...Steven Pierce [email protected] Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana . By Serena Owusua Dankwa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 318 pp., $99.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In her...

...Rachel Spronk [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Why will Serena Dankwa's monograph on same-sex desiring women in Ghana become a classic? There are myriad reasons why it should, of course. It is about a group of women who hardly figure in academic research...

... as nonhuman beings subjected to violences and upheavals. The section's broad-ranging essays underscore the need for solidarities and imaginations that are not limited to “legal,” “human” subjects. We then turn to a Kitabkhana on Serena Owusua Dankwa's recent ethnography Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy...

... in Postcolonial Namibia.” Gender and Society 24 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 110 – 29 . Dankwa Serena . “ ‘It's a Silent Trade’: Female Same-Sex Intimacies in Postcolonial Ghana.” NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 17 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 192 – 205 . Davidson Arnold I...