Buch
Monografie
Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Verfasst von:
Currier, Ashley
Minneapolis, Minn. [u. a.]:
Univ. of Minnesota Press
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2012
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255 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Currier, Ashley |
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Social movements, protest, and contention
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| Jahr: | 2012 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0816678006 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| "Out in Africa" presents an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements in both countries as these organizations make use of Western terminology and notions of identity to gain funding even as they work to counter the perception that they are “un-African.” Different sociopolitical conditions in Namibia and South Africa affected how activists in each country campaigned for LGBT rights between 1995 and 2006. Focusing on this period, Ashley Currier shows how, in Namibia, LGBT activists struggled against ruling party leaders’ homophobic rhetoric and how, at the same time, black LGBT citizens of South Africa, though enjoying constitutional protections, greater visibility, and heightened activism, nonetheless confronted homophobic violence because of their gender and sexual nonconformity. As it tells the story of the evolving political landscape in postapartheid Namibia and South Africa, "Out in Africa" situates these countries’ movements in relation to developments in pan-African LGBT organizing and offers broader insights into visibility as a social movement strategy rather than simply as a static accomplishment or outcome of political organizing. Contents: Introduction: how visibility matters -- The rise of LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa -- "This lesbian issue": navigating public visibility as lesbian movement organizations -- Disappearing acts: organizational invisibility in times of opportunity -- Homosexuality is African: struggles "to be seen" -- Conclusion: why visibility matters | |
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| Formerly CIP Uk. - Introduction: how visibility matters -- The rise of LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa -- "This lesbian issue": navigating public visibility as lesbian movement organizations -- Disappearing acts: organizational invisibility in times of opportunity -- Homosexuality is African: struggles "to be seen" -- Conclusion: why visibility matters | |
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