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Contested intimacies : sexuality, gender and the law in Africa /

Contested intimacies : sexuality, gender and the law in Africa / edited by Derrick Higginbotham, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi. - xix, 84 pages ; 25 cm. - Celebrating Africa series .

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Imagining intersections: sexuality, gender, law, and the politics of solidarities / Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Derrick Higginbotham -- The limit(s) of the law: human rights and the emancipation of sexual minorities on the African continent / Pierre de Vos -- Protecting the 'traditional heterosexual family'? the state and anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda / Angelo Kakande -- Unshackling women's sexuality? miniskirts, the law, and the media in Uganda / Amanda Tumusiime and Juliet Kiguli -- On miniskirts and hegemonic masculinity: the ideology of deviant feminine sexuality in anti-homosexuality and decency laws / Barbara Boswell -- Afterword: Sexing the law and legislating gendered sexualities / Stella Nyanzi.

9781928309000

2015466492


Sex--Social aspects--Africa.
Sex--Political aspects--Africa.
Patriarchy--Africa.
Human rights--Africa.
Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Africa.

HQ18.A35 / CON 2015