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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

2022-09-01 Social Science
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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies by : Martha Donkor

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies written by Martha Donkor. This book was released on 2022-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knowing Women

2021-01-21 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2021-01-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Knowing Women by : Serena Owusua Dankwa

Download or read book Knowing Women written by Serena Owusua Dankwa. This book was released on 2021-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.

Politicizing Sexuality

2022
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Release : 2022
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Book Synopsis Politicizing Sexuality by : Regina Y. Fuller

Download or read book Politicizing Sexuality written by Regina Y. Fuller. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, vociferous public and political debates about the place of Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE, a sexual rights-based form of sex education in schools have proliferated across Africa. In Ghana, the Ministry of Education introduced CSE into the public-school curriculum in 2017, and two years later, the Ministry removed CSE from schools due to strong public and religious opposition. This dissertation examines the question of how CSE, which was once accepted, became controversial in sex education policymaking from 2018 to 2021. This dissertation draws on a 3-year ethnography of the sex education battles in Accra, Ghana from 2018-2021 through meeting ethnography, interviews, and content analysis of CSE curricula documents. Through an African feminist lens and sociocultural approach to education policy, this study examines how policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and religious leaders position gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights within the debates on the content and form of school-based sex education. I argue that fights over CSE are not just concerned with content of sex education curriculum but focused on the place of gender, sexuality, and sexual rights within Ghanaian society. I posit that 3 different positions on sex education and sexual rights emerged within the fights over CSE. The first position, sexual conservatives lobbied for an abstinence-only sex education. The second position I show within these debates is that of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) advocates. SRH advocates supported CSE, sexual and reproductive health services for young people, but rejected CSE's foundation of sexual rights for young people. SRH advocates also rejected calls for a sex education curriculum that included lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender (LGBT) sexualities or sexual rights for sexual minorities. The third position I show is that of sexual rights advocates called for an LGBT rights inclusive sex education curriculum and sexual rights for sexual minorities. My dissertation expands on extant literature in Africa's sexual politics by showing how sex education policymaking is a new arena in which sexuality policies are being shaped. Moreover, this project is the first to ethnographically examine how different institutional actors contest and negotiate CSE policy for in-school children in Ghana.

Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana

2004 Public opinion
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Release : 2004
Genre : Public opinion
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Book Synopsis Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana by : Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey

Download or read book Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment in Ghana written by Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and the general public have not paid much attention to non-rape forms of sex discrimination, such as sexual harassment. The concept is seen to suffer from ambiguity, and is often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it finally did receive attention sexual harassment was seen almost exclusively as a workplace phenomenon. The main objective of the study was to generate insight into Ghanaian perspectives on sexual harassment in relation to the definition, sites of harassment, experiences and perspectives on redress.

Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana

2023-01-19 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2023-01-19
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Synopsis Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana by : Charles Prempeh

Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana written by Charles Prempeh. This book was released on 2023-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the millennium, in Ghana and in other African countries, there has been a vociferous debate over the history and present condition of the family. The debate has largely fragmented the Ghanaian constituency into two nearly intransigent camps: those who think the indigenous family system should experience cultural osmosis to accommodate the seismic Western cultural revolutions and the overwhelming religious constituency who advocate the retention of conservative family system. This book is a contribution to the debate. Written by an African Studies academic, it seeks to use the resources of both the social sciences and religion to assess the merits of the various parties to the debate. The author believes in the legitimacy of the traditional family system as conditio sine qua non for preserving human civilization. Nevertheless, the goal of this book is not to further polarize the Ghanaian front, but build bridges, by inviting the various parties to the debate to walk the complex pathways of exercising compassion without compromising the values that support human flourishing. Charles Prempeh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana.

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