Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Collective Stories of Trauma and Transition

This book explores the textures of women?s narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality. Postcolonial feminist scholars in Africa highlight the importance of moving beyond Westernised lenses of ?African? women?s powerlessness, towards a focus on women?s culturally-specific sexual agency. However, few studies explore women?s psychological experiences of sexual oppression/agency in real depth. Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa traces the narratives of heterosexual migrant women from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Congo. The book offers insight into women?s experiences ?back home,? travelling through border posts in Africa, and life in current post-apartheid South Africa. Through a unique collectively-based methodology and a feminist poststructuralist lens, the author examines narrative strategies used by the women to manage and psychologically resist harmful discourses surrounding female sexuality and women?s bodies. The book offers rich exploration of the intersections of gender and sexuality, class, race and citizenship situating the narratives within the wider context of poverty and migration in sub-Saharan Africa. These vectors of oppression are illuminated throughout the text via integrated threads of the researcher?s positionality in relation to the women narrators.

Enriches contemporary scholarship on gender and sexualities, post-conflict reconstruction and culturally-relevant research methodologies

Offers new insights for the study of women’s agency in Africa

Will be of interest to academics working in the field of gender-based violence, sexuality studies, and narrative research