By Sylvia Tamale This compendium is a breath of fresh air for those frustrated with dominant narratives that feed into the (neo)colonial, Eurocentric and hetero-patriarchal projects. The authors engage in counter readings of conventional archives and produce knowledge from unconventional sources. What better way to decolonize knowledge production than theorizing gender and sexuality “from the…
Author: Sylvia Tamale
Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’
Introduction On February 6, 2014, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Pornography Act (APA) into law. This single stroke of the presidential pen signalled a redeployment of women’s bodies as a battlefield for cultural-moral struggles, and an eruption of new frontiers in sexual political tensions in the country. Plans to draft the law date back…
Professor Sylvia Tamale
Professor Sylvia Tamale is a leading African feminist and scholar. She was the first female dean at the School of Law at Makerere University in Uganda. She founded the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Centre at the same university. Prof. Tamale has been a visiting Professor in several academic institutions globally and serves on several…
Nudity, Protest and the Law in Uganda
By Sylvia Tamale The human body is itself a politically inscribed entity, its physiology and morphology shaped by histories and practices of containment and control. Susan Bordo (1993: 21) I view law(s) as an authorized discourse — as a language constituted by a series of symbols that is located in not merely the realm of the…