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Title:

Legislating gender and sexuality in Africa : human rights, society, and the state / edited by Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Human rights--Africa.
Women's rights--Africa.
Gay rights--Africa.
Sexual minorities--Civil rights--Africa.
Gay rights.
Human rights.
Women's rights.
Africa.

Other Authors:

Boyd, Lydia, editor.
Burrill, Emily, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Critical human rights

ISBN:

029932740X
9780299327408

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1125274718

LCCN:

2019039028

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)