Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.

• Superior document: New African histories series
• TeilnehmendeR: Burrill, Emily,; Roberts, Richard L., 1949-; Thornberry, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: New African histories series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages) :; maps.
• Other title: Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 /; Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 /; Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 /; Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 /; Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape /; Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s /; Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 /; Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate /; "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal /; The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy /; Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse /; Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa /; Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
• ISBN: 9780821419281 (hc : alk. paper); 0821419285 (hc : alk. paper); 9780821419298 (pb : alk. paper); 0821419293 (pb : alk. paper); 9780821443453
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.