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SUMMARY:Eleanor K. Jones: 'Abaixo a Prostituição! Viva Moçambique!: Sex W
 ork and Sex in Mozambican Independence Discourse'
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the Spanish and Portuguese seminar series. Time: 5pm.
  Venue: Samuel Alexander W3.13\n\nAbstract: \nBased on archival fieldwor
 k conducted in Maputo in summer 2014\, this paper explores the rhetorica
 l use of prostitution in official Mozambican independence discourses. In
  Mozambique's post-1975 battle to construct a viable socialist nation in
  the face of increasing external destabilisation efforts\, women sex wor
 kers came to embody the twin enemies of imperialism and capitalism for r
 uling party FRELIMO. Grandiose denouncements of their activities filled 
 column inches and echoed around public rallies\, with the women in quest
 ion cast as both stooges and victims of neocolonial endeavour.\n\nWhile 
 the socioeconomic status of women sex workers in the anticolonial contex
 t has been given prominence in feminist histories of Mozambique\, the ro
 le of prostitution as a rhetorical and discursive touchstone has remaine
 d all but absent from scholarly analyses. With this paper\, I aim to bri
 ng a new perspective on Mozambican sexual politics to light by recentrin
 g sex work as the linchpin of gendered discourses during and after the c
 ountry's anticolonial struggle\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:W3.13\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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