Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa(English, Hardcover, Currier Ashley)

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Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa(English, Hardcover, Currier Ashley) is written by Currier Ashley and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108427898 (ISBN 10) and 9781108427890 (ISBN 13).

Although sexual minorities in Africa continue to face harsh penalties for same-sex relationships, strong anti-homophobic resistance exists across the continent. This book systematically charts the emergence and effects of politicized homophobia in Malawi and shows how it has been used as a strategy by political elites to consolidate their moral and political authority, through punishing LGBT people and dividing social movements. Here, Ashley Currier pays particular attention to the impact of politicized homophobia on different social movements, specifically HIV/AIDS, human rights, LGBT rights, and women's rights movements. Her timely account intervenes in Afro-pessimist portrayals of the African continent as a hotbed of homophobia and unravels the tensions and contradictions underlying Western perceptions of Malawi. It shows that, in reality, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people happily call Malawi home, in spite of heightened antigay vitriol that has generated unwanted visibility for them.