Naked agency : genital cursing and biopolitics in Africa /

Baring genitalia, or the threat thereof, as a form of protest has appeared with increasing frequency across sub-Saharan African countries since the 1990s. Naked agency provides a conceptual framework for reading African women's "defiant disrobing" not as a stable, singular event, but...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Diabate, Naminata, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020].
Series:	Theory in forms.
Subjects:	Nudity > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Women > Political activity > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Human body > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Political activists > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Social action > Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Exceptional nakedness
Restriction
Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics
Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy
Cooptation
Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self-) instrumentalization
Scene 4. In the name of national interest
Scene 5. Film as instrumental and interpretive lens
Repression
Scene 6. Secularizing genital cursing and rhetorical backlash
Scene 7. Epistemic ignorance and menstrual rags in Paris
Scene 8. Murderous reactions: reading defiant disrobing
Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral.