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

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical human rights
Critical human rights.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Human rights -- Africa.
Human rights.
Africa.
Women's rights -- Africa.
Women's rights.
Gay rights -- Africa.
Sexual minorities -- Civil rights -- Africa.
Sexual minorities.
Civil rights.
Gay rights.
HISTORY -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Human rights.
Gay rights.
LGBTQ+ people.
Sexual minorities.
Added Author Boyd, Lydia, editor.
Burrill, Emily, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Legislating gender and sexuality in Africa. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020] 9780299327408 (DLC) 2019039028 (OCoLC)1125274718
ISBN 9780299327439 (electronic book)
0299327434 (electronic book)
9780299327408
029932740X