Different Approaches, Similar Outcomes: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and South Africa

2013 ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Edmondo Mostacci
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage

Where is the queer critique of same-sex marriage in South Africa?

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-538
Author(s):  
T. L. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage

scholarly journals Making Marital Status in South Africa, Past and Present

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Yarbrough
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
General Public ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage

This essay written for the general public uses my ethnographic research on customary African marriage and same-sex marriage in South Africa to argue that marital status is best understood not as a static category but as the ongoing production of layered social processes.

scholarly journals Expanding African Queer Visual Activism Within and Beyond the Continent

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jazmin Maco
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Distinct Difference ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Sociopolitical Context

This article examines the origin of the term “visual activism” in the context of post-independence South Africa, and further reflects on its development in response to anti-gay legislation in contemporary Nigeria and Uganda. The emergence of an explicitly queer strain of visual activism on the continent was sanctioned by South Africa’s pro-gay Constitution and propagated by the works of photographer Zanele Muholi. Whereas South Africa’s sociopolitical context has permitted the expression of queer visual activism through forms of photography and documentary media in Nigeria and Uganda, this expression has been routinely monitored and suppressed by such policies as the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill (SSMPA) and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, respectively. This study specifically references the works of South African Muholi in conversation with those of Nigerian-American Adejoke Tugbiyele and Ugandan native Leilah Babirye as a means to articulate how these punitive national policies have forced contemporary queer visual activists to adopt expressive rather than representational forms of visual protest. This paper identifies a distinct difference in epistemological origin, aesthetic composition, and formal materiality across the practices of Muholi, Tugbiyele, and Babirye in order to explore the multiplicity of the genre as well as broaden conventional conceptions of African queer visual activism.

scholarly journals Same-sex marriage in South Africa: The road ahead

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
JA Robinson ◽  
J Swanepoel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Road

In hierdie bydrae word die problematiek oor "huwelike" tussen persone van dieselfde geslag aan die orde gestel. 'n Oorsig word gebied oor die verskillende fasette van die debat en die argumente wat tipies daarin aangevoer word. Op grond van 'n teoretiese verantwoording oor die aard van die huwelik word standpunt oor hierdie kwessie ingeneem. Nadat moontlike modelle oorweeg is word daar met inagneming van grondwetlike oorwegings 'n aanbeveling oor hierdie aangeleentheid gedoen.

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