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Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine
This article works across multiple disciplinary boundaries, especially queer theory, to examine critically the controversial, and often socially controlling, role of biomedical knowledge and interventions in t...
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Open AccessQueer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine
This article works across multiple disciplinary boundaries, especially queer theory, to examine critically the controversial, and often socially controlling, role of biomedical knowledge and interventions in t...
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resisting heteronormativity/resisting recolonisation: affective bonds between indigenous women in southern Africa and the difference(s) of postcolonial feminist history
This article recognises that any attempt to theorise the first wave globally must specify the use of the term ‘global’, so as not to elide the specificity of local differences, and must critically account for ...
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Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison
What does it mean to compare? The answer to this question is often taken for granted: highlighting both similarities and differences between what is being compared. The comparative essay is one of the most common...
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Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Inquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonization
In refusing to (re)produce South Africa as the spectacle of apartheid while being attentive to the historical reality of racial domination and its material effects in an analysis of struggles pertaining to the...
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Introduction
The dismantling of the structures of apartheid in South Africa since the 1994 elections over a decade ago, and the ANC’s (African National Congress) gradual move toward democratization, national reconciliation...
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Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonizing Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the “New” South Africa
Postcolonial studies, in its analysis of marginalization and subaltern domination, has tended to focus on national identities and borders and the ways in which race, gender, and class are configured within the...
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Affective Bonds between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence
In the previous chapter, I acknowledged how the dominant body of historical research on same-sex relations among indigenous miners, within the system of South African migrant labor, is able to mark the ways in...
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Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the “New” South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics
This book has argued has that the study of (homo)sexuality in South Africa needs to be bracketed contextually under a set of historical, cultural, and ideological conditions, but any study that falls under the...
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Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines
In the search for the origins of exploitation and oppression, especially in trying to understand apartheid in South Africa through the perspective of postapartheid politics, contemporary historiography in Sout...
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Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of “New” South African Nationhood
Amidst the political shift from apartheid to democracy for over a decade in South Africa, the country has been engaged in political and discursive struggle in attempting to redefine the signifier “South Africa...
