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A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa
Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73347 A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa Murungi, Nkatha sodeibukuntomi@gmail.com Sode, Ibukunoluwa Oluwatomi UCTD Sexual rights Older women Intersecting discrimination and vulnerabilities Sexual agency Legal frameworks African human rights system Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2019. Despite the importance of sexuality and sexual rights at every stage of human development and interaction, the relationship between sexuality and aging has been a neglected area of research and policy interventions, most especially within the African context. In addressing this gap, this study explores the sexual rights of older women in Africa from a socio-legal perspective, critically looking at what claims to sexual rights older women have, the historical basis for the invisibility and marginalisation of older women in the sexuality discourse as well as current avenues for the protection and promotion of their sexual rights. Herein, the intersectionality approach is used to explain older women’s experience of discrimination with regards to their sexual health and rights which is often exacerbated by attitudes and bias about their age and inferred asexuality. Furthermore, this study extensively reviews the legal framework available for the protection of the sexual rights of older women within international and regional human rights systems with specific emphasis on the African human rights system, identifying the specific challenges to the actualisation of the sexual rights of older women in Africa and proposing ways by which this can be addressed. Ultimately, this study submits that the available legal framework is insufficient for the protection of the sexual rights of older women and would require strengthening for a more holistic sexual rights framework that embodies both freedom from (negative rights) and freedom to (positive rights) with emphasis on the specific needs and vulnerabilities of older women. Centre for Human Rights MPhil Unrestricted 2020-02-17T09:28:05Z 2020-02-17T09:28:05Z 2019 2019 Dissertation Sode, IO 2019, A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa, MPhil Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73347> D2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73347 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sexual rights Older women Intersecting discrimination and vulnerabilities Sexual agency Legal frameworks African human rights system A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title | A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title_full | A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title_fullStr | A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title_short | A critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in Africa |
| title_sort | critical analysis of the sexual rights of older women in africa |
| topic | UCTD Sexual rights Older women Intersecting discrimination and vulnerabilities Sexual agency Legal frameworks African human rights system |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73347 |