Gamal Abdel-Shehid
Biographic Data
| ID | 343030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gamal Abdel-Shehid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdel-Shehid |
| SIGNATURE | ABDEL-SHEHID G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading Davis and Fanon: A Creolizing Approach to Race, Gender and Sexuality
The paper uses insights from Jane Anna Gordon’s Creolizing Political Theory to come up with a different way to read the work of Frantz Fanon in general and his discussion of gender and sexuality in particular. The paper argues against a hermetic reading of Fanon, one which reads him outside of context and influences. Instead of this close, or primary reading of Fanon, I offer a “conversation” between Fanon and the early work of Angela Y. Davis. T…
On the Eurocentric nature of sex testing: The case of Caster Semenya
Black masculinity and femininity have been read outside the normative gender sphere since plantation slavery. The construction of Black femininity, is apparent in the treatment of Caster Semenya, whose treatment is reminiscent to that of ‘the so-called’ Hottentot Venus, Sarah Bartmann. This comparison has been made due to the voyeurism they have been subjected to and the spectacle that has been made of their bodies. Semenya’s treatment is reflect…
Muhammad Ali: America’s B-Side
Closed Place, Open Word”: Locating the Post-Manichean in Recent Black Thought
Recently, in social and political theory, we have become familiar with using “posts” to describe our world. As someone in favour of these developments, I see this paper as my attempt to add another post to the mix: the post-Manichean. While there are a number of reasons why this is important, I will outline some of them. First, in response to Wahneema Lubiano’s (1998) question, “What’s PoMo got to do with it?”, I recognize the need to locate blac…
Muhammad Ali: America’s B-Side
On the Eurocentric nature of sex testing: The case of Caster Semenya
Black masculinity and femininity have been read outside the normative gender sphere since plantation slavery. The construction of Black femininity, is apparent in the treatment of Caster Semenya, whose treatment is reminiscent to that of ‘the so-called’ Hottentot Venus, Sarah Bartmann. This comparison has been made due to the voyeurism they have been subjected to and the spectacle that has been made of their bodies. Semenya’s treatment is reflect…
Closed Place, Open Word”: Locating the Post-Manichean in Recent Black Thought
Recently, in social and political theory, we have become familiar with using “posts” to describe our world. As someone in favour of these developments, I see this paper as my attempt to add another post to the mix: the post-Manichean. While there are a number of reasons why this is important, I will outline some of them. First, in response to Wahneema Lubiano’s (1998) question, “What’s PoMo got to do with it?”, I recognize the need to locate blac…
Muhammad Ali: America’s B-Side
On the Eurocentric nature of sex testing: The case of Caster Semenya
Black masculinity and femininity have been read outside the normative gender sphere since plantation slavery. The construction of Black femininity, is apparent in the treatment of Caster Semenya, whose treatment is reminiscent to that of ‘the so-called’ Hottentot Venus, Sarah Bartmann. This comparison has been made due to the voyeurism they have been subjected to and the spectacle that has been made of their bodies. Semenya’s treatment is reflect…
Reading Davis and Fanon: A Creolizing Approach to Race, Gender and Sexuality
The paper uses insights from Jane Anna Gordon’s Creolizing Political Theory to come up with a different way to read the work of Frantz Fanon in general and his discussion of gender and sexuality in particular. The paper argues against a hermetic reading of Fanon, one which reads him outside of context and influences. Instead of this close, or primary reading of Fanon, I offer a “conversation” between Fanon and the early work of Angela Y. Davis. T…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Law (2 works)