Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’

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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 to 2005, when the Minister of Ethics
and Integrity at the time, Nsaba Buturo, set off alarm bells by announcing
that the “vice of miniskirts” had taken hold of society to the extent of
distracting mentally-weak male drivers on Ugandan roads!

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: ., 2015

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Law
Nigerian government
Women’s Bodies
Cultural-Moral
Pornography
Marauding
Vigilante groups

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