ABSTRACT
To illustrate that the ‘right to the city’ pertains also to more personal aspects of individual identities, this chapter focuses on legal, social and spatial struggles for sexual liberation in Johannesburg. After expositing theory on the inter-linkages between rights, the city, gender and sexuality, the chapter considers the legal and social components of two related struggles for sexual citizenship in Johannesburg – concerning sex work and LGBTI rights. Highlighting gender as a common denominator, it then considers the restriction and policing of female sexuality in Johannesburg, before reflecting upon the limits of rights-based adjudication for the advancement of sexual citizenship.
