Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1
5. Section I. Restriction
6. Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29
7. Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43
8. Section II. Co-optation
9. Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-) Instrumentalization 65
10. Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89
11. Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107
12. Section III. Repression
13. Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131
14. Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149
15. Scene 8. (Mis)Reading Murderous Reactions 175
16. Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191
17. Notes 197
18. References 219
19. Index 251