Desiring Queer Motherhood and Mothering Ourselves

IF 0.9 2区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/13696815.2023.2186380

S. Dankwa

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay is an open-ended, poetic reflection connecting findings from my ethnographic research on same-sex desiring women in southern Ghana with my own journey of becoming a queer mother in Switzerland. It suggests that desires for motherhood cannot be reduced to the wish for procreating or tapping into the power of extending our heteronormative lineages, but reflect feminist desires for loving, growing and connecting across generational divides. It asks to what extent mothering a child and sugar-mothering a younger woman lover can be thought (and lived) alongside each other while connecting us to our own mothers. By documenting the challenges of finding ways into queer motherhood, it hopes to encourage collective ways of “doing” families beyond marriage and childbirth.

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渴望酷儿母亲和我们自己的母亲

摘要这篇文章是一篇开放式的、诗意的反思，将我对加纳南部渴望同性的女性的民族志研究结果与我自己在瑞士成为同性恋母亲的旅程联系起来。它表明，对母性的渴望不能被简化为生育的愿望或利用扩大我们非规范谱系的力量，而是反映了女权主义对爱、成长和跨越代际联系的渴望。它询问，在将我们与自己的母亲联系起来的同时，在多大程度上，养育一个孩子和养育一个年轻的女性情人可以被认为（并生活）在一起。通过记录寻找成为同性恋母亲的方法所面临的挑战，它希望鼓励在婚姻和生育之外以集体方式“做”家庭。

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Journal of African Cultural Studies Multiple-

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1.70

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes leading scholarship on African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to Africa-based authors and to African languages. Our editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, including environmental humanities. The journal focuses on dimensions of African culture, performance arts, visual arts, music, cinema, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender. We welcome in particular articles that show evidence of understanding life on the ground, and that demonstrate local knowledge and linguistic competence. We do not publish articles that offer mostly textual analyses of cultural products like novels and films, nor articles that are mostly historical or those based primarily on secondary (such as digital and library) sources. The journal has evolved from the journal African Languages and Cultures, founded in 1988 in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2019, it is published in association with the International African Institute, London. Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal also publishes an occasional Contemporary Conversations section, in which authors respond to current issues. The section has included reviews, interviews and invited response or position papers. We welcome proposals for future Contemporary Conversations themes.