Góor-jigéen : la resignification négative d’une catégorie entre genre et sexualité (Sénégal)

• Published in: Socio
• Main Author: Broqua, Christophe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2017
• Subjects: genre; sexualité; homosexualité; resignification; Sénégal; Afrique; intersexe; intersexué; transgenre; Inuit; anthropologie; troisième sexe social; Françoise Héritier; Bernard Saladin d’Anglure; sexuality; homosexuality; Africa; intersex; trans; anthropology; third social sex; litt; Françoise; Rendu; inuit
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/socio/3063

In many African countries there were, and sometimes still are, institutionalised figures of gender diversity. Such is the case in Senegal of the Góor-jigéen, in Wolof, literally “man-woman”. Referred to as of the 19th century in some observers’ accounts, this figure has rarely been described or anal...