Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Atlantic Africa

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Along with the growing recognition of Africans? dynamic roles in shaping the Atlantic world has come attention to the many complex ways that these encounters have shaped African societies. Featuring new, innovative scholarship, this course delves into the entangled histories of ideas of gender, sexualities, and power as they developed in Atlantic Africa between the 15th-20th centuries. Ideal for any students interested in Atlantic world, African, or comparative histories, our case studies reveal that often these themes were central to both individuals and to societies? strategies of politics, economics, colonialism, resistance, and spirituality.