The Female Body in African Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Self-Fulfillment and Subversion in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story

Kouamé ADOU

Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères – Numéro 9 (2015) Page(s) 1 - 15 ISSN 2076-6130

While the emergence of gender studies questioned the control of woman’s body in patriarchal societies, it appeared as a taboo issue in the debates on the rights of the African woman and her quest for equality. The objective of this article is twofold. F irst, using a sociological approach, it reminds us that a practice such as female circumcision significantly participates in the strategy of the control of the female bod y in Africa. Secondly , using a literary approach, it shows through the analysis of Ama Ata Aidoo’s novel Changes: A Love Story that modern women gradually get rid of the burden of African sexual politics and regain control of their body by challenging the sexual contract which maintains them in oppressive structures such as the family and marriage. The contrast bet

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Kouamé ADOU. « The Female Body in African Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Self-Fulfillment and Subversion in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 9, 2015, p. 1. ISSN 2076-6130.