Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and the State in Africa / Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill
1. Legislating Marriagein Postcolonial Mali: A History of the Present / Emily Burrill
2. Early Marriage and the Debates over Gender-Based Rights in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
3. Where Are the Women? Gendered Experiences of Land Resource Management in the Time of
Climate Change in Southern Burkina Faso /
Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié
4. Sex, Schooling, and the Paradox of the Readmission Policy in Malawi / Rachel Silver
5. The Debate over Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Uganda: Barriers to Vernacularizing Reproductive Rights / Eunice Musiime and Leah Eryenyu
6. Family Violence in the Refugee Claims of Asylum Seekers from West Africa / Charlotte Walker-Said
7. Colonial Legacies, Electoral Politics, and the Production of (Anti)homosexuality in Senegal / Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, Ellen E. Foley, and
Ndack Diop
8. Making Rights Visible: The Embodied Nature of
Debates over Sexual and Gender-Based Rights in
Uganda / Lydia Boyd
Epilogue: Entanglements of Law, Gender, and Sexuality in Africa / Dorothy L. Hodgson
Contributors
Index