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Title Making the Sexual Political: Women's Transnational Collective Actions
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6qs716sr
Date 2010
Author(s) Minai, Naveen
Abstract This paper will look at the disruption of the heteronormative organization of resistance and protest caused by selected collective actions by women from Liberia, Nigeria and Kenya. I will use feminist critiques of the construction of the political versus the personal and theorize about 1) the definitions of what is sexual and sexualized in the realm of the private; 2) the contradictions in the formations and inscriptions onto bodies, of these definitions; and 3) the inscription of these definitions onto bodies and experiences themselves, which determines what is considered valid resistance. I will then look at the multiple and simultaneous disruptions caused to these processes by the examples of women's collective actions in this paper.
Subject(s) Liberia; Nigeria; Kenya; Women; Activism; Sexuality; Arts and Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Community Engagement
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Minai, Naveen. (2010). Making the Sexual Political: Women's Transnational Collective Actions. UCLA: UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6qs716sr
Rights public
Identifier qt6qs716sr
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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