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Eros, beauty and crisis: notes from Senegal

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By focusing on relationships among women, I seek to explore the erotics of several arenas in public, private and social life both at the centre and the margins of dominant heteronormative relationships and social structures. In particular, I will explore the dynamics of seduction as rehearsed and performed by women among women: how they negotiate the “gaze” of other women and their own reflected needs and desires. The socio-economic crises and the resulting structural reconfigurations of both domestic and public
spheres in Senegal have had a gendered impact, and I show that local women have drawn upon innovative strategies in order to negotiate them. Drawing upon my fieldwork in Senegal, I will suggest how a feminist agenda on sexual cultures might reconsider and theorise material from everyday life that may not seem directly related to heteronormativity, sexual practices and regulation.

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: Feminist Africa.,
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