Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.
Saved in:
Superior document: | New African histories series |
---|---|
TeilnehmendeR: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2010] 2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New African histories series.
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 pages) :; maps. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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. |