SEXUAL IDENTITY AND ROMANTIC ATTRACTION IN SELECTED POEMS OF FOLU AGOI AND SYLVIA KANKARA

📄 Project Abstract

Concepts like culture and society did not develop as a major conceptual tool for thinking about sexuality until the 1970s and early 1980s, mostly in opposition to the concept of nature. This was the result of a long-term series of modifications in how sexuality was conceptualized and examined. Gender and sexuality are inseparably linked, and both are shaped by culture and society. They both play important roles in preserving relationships in our communities, and they shape each other so much that any inquiry into one uncovers the other. Gender is the lens through which any data on sexuality is logically interpreted, despite the fact that sexuality is firmly interwoven in the meanings and interpretations of gender systems. In reality, sexuality study is meaningless without gender analysis. Sexuality is a topic of great interest to most people. It entertains and intrigues and is a source of both personal happiness and frustration. However, it should be broadly understood that sexuality s...