Contested intimacies
Subtitle: sexuality, gender and the law in Africa
By: edited by Derrick Higginbotham, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Contributors: University of Cape Town. Centre for African Studies; University of Cape Town. International Academic Programmes Office
Series: Celebrating Africa series; Celebrating Africa series
Publisher: Siber Ink in association with IAPO and Centre for African Studies
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781928309000
Subjects: Sex; Patriarchy; Human rights; Homosexuality; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Imagining intersections: sexuality, gender, law, and the politics of solidarities / Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Derrick Higginbotham; title: The limit(s) of the law: human rights and the emancipation of sexual minorities on the African continent / Pierre de Vos; title: Protecting the  'traditional heterosexual family'? the state and anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda / Angelo Kakande; title: Unshackling women's sexuality? miniskirts, the law, and the media in Uganda / Amanda Tumusiime and Juliet Kiguli; title: On miniskirts and hegemonic masculinity: the ideology of deviant feminine sexuality in anti-homosexuality and decency laws / Barbara Boswell; title: Afterword: Sexing the law and legislating gendered sexualities / Stella Nyanzi.