Introduction: Exceptional nakedness
Restriction
Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics
Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy
Co-optation
Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self-) instrumentalization
Scene 4. In the name of national interest
Scene 5. Film as instrumental and interpretive lens
Repression
Scene 6. Secularizing genital cursing and rhetorical backlash
Scene 7. Epistemic ignorance and menstrual rags in Paris
Scene 8. Mis(reading) murderous reactions
Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral.