Book contents
- Knowing Women
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Knowing Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Arrival Stories
- Introduction: Freeing Our Imaginations
- 1 Tacit Erotic Intimacies and the Culture of Indirection
- 2 Supi, Secrecy, and the Gift of Knowing
- 3 “The One Who First Says ‘I Love You’”
- 4 Sugar Motherhood and the Collectivization of Love
- 5 “Doing Everything Together”
- Conclusion: A Fabric that Never Goes Out of Fashion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
Book contents
- Knowing Women
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Knowing Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Arrival Stories
- Introduction: Freeing Our Imaginations
- 1 Tacit Erotic Intimacies and the Culture of Indirection
- 2 Supi, Secrecy, and the Gift of Knowing
- 3 “The One Who First Says ‘I Love You’”
- 4 Sugar Motherhood and the Collectivization of Love
- 5 “Doing Everything Together”
- Conclusion: A Fabric that Never Goes Out of Fashion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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