Legislating gender and sexuality in Africa : human rights, society, and the state /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Boyd, Lydia (Editor), Burrill, Emily (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]
Series:Critical human rights.
Subjects:
Human rights > Africa.
Women's rights > Africa.
Gay rights > Africa.
Sexual minorities > Civil rights > Africa.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Afrique.
Femmes > Droits > Afrique.
Homosexuels > Droits > Afrique.
Minorités sexuelles > Droits > Afrique.
HISTORY > General.
Gay rights
Human rights
Women's rights
Sexual minorities
Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the intimacy of rights / Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill
  • Legislating marriage in postcolonial Mali: a history of the present / Emily Burrill
  • Early marriage and the debates over gender-based rights in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
  • Where are the women? Gendered experiences of land resources management in the time of climate change in southern Burkina Faso / Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié
  • Sex, schooling, and the paradox of readmission policy in Malawi / Rachel Silver
  • Barriers to the vernacularization of sexual and reproductive health rights in Uganda: the debate over comprehensive sexual education / Eunice Musiime and Leah Eryenyu
  • Family violence in the refugee claims of asylum seekers from West Africa / Charlotte Walker-Said
  • Colonial legacies, electoral politics, and the production of (anti) homosexuality in Senegal / Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, Ellen E. Foley, and Ndack Diop
  • Making rights visible: the embodied nature of debates over sexual and gender-based rights in Uganda / Lydia Boyd
  • Epilogue: legislating gender and sexuality in Africa / Dorothy L. Hodgson.

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