Knowing women : same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana /

"Knowing Women is an ethnography on friendship, same-sex desire, and intimacy among urban, working-class women in southern Ghana who engage in erotic relationships with each other. The intersectional analysis of these women's life narratives and world views situates them in relation to con...

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Main Author: Dankwa, Serena Owusua, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021]
Series:African identities: past and present.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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