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The excellent studies assembled here show that gender relations and sexuality pose unforeseen challenges to both the theory and the practice of human rights. The range of answers given in this volume will help students, scholars, and activists find their way through a morass of contemporary debates. - Harri Englund, University of Cambridge Grounded in the finest of anthropological traditions and enhanced by an exceptionally insightful introduction and epilogue, these essays both challenge and enrich existing theory. They powerfully demonstrate how international legal codes shape - and are reshaped by - the most intimate of human affairs. - Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University An important and original work. As a platform, human rights operates as both practice and discourse to shape subjectivity and conduct. This compelling collection demonstrates how this formula unleashes possibilities for political agency while at the same time foreclosing others. - Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona As a collection, Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa shows that arguments over human rights are ultimately debates about who can be visible and who is worthy of the state's protection. - Alice J. Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

"The excellent studies assembled here show that gender relations and sexuality pose unforeseen challenges to both the theory and the practice of human rights. The range of answers given in this volume will help students, scholars, and activists find their way through a morass of contemporary debates."" - Harri Englund, University of Cambridge ""Grounded in the finest of anthropological traditions and enhanced by an exceptionally insightful introduction and epilogue, these essays both challenge and enrich existing theory. They powerfully demonstrate how international legal codes shape - and are reshaped by - the most intimate of human affairs."" - Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University ""An important and original work. As a platform, human rights operates as both practice and discourse to shape subjectivity and conduct. This compelling collection demonstrates how this formula unleashes possibilities for political agency while at the same time foreclosing others."" - Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona ""As a collection, Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa shows that arguments over human rights are ultimately debates about who can be visible and who is worthy of the state's protection."" - Alice J. Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln"

The excellent studies assembled here show that gender relations and sexuality pose unforeseen challenges to both the theory and the practice of human rights. The range of answers given in this volume will help students, scholars, and activists find their way through a morass of contemporary debates. --Harri Englund, University of Cambridge Grounded in the finest of anthropological traditions and enhanced by an exceptionally insightful introduction and epilogue, these essays both challenge and enrich existing theory. They powerfully demonstrate how international legal codes shape--and are reshaped by--the most intimate of human affairs. --Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University An important and original work. As a platform, human rights operates as both practice and discourse to shape subjectivity and conduct. This compelling collection demonstrates how this formula unleashes possibilities for political agency while at the same time foreclosing others. --Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona As a collection, Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa shows that arguments over human rights are ultimately debates about who can be visible and who is worthy of the state's protection. --Alice J. Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Lydia Boyd is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda. Emily Burrill is an associate professor and the director of the African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali.

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