Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

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

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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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages) :; maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts
  • Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe
  • Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet
  • Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante
  • pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
  • Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter
  • Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd
  • Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo
  • pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop
  • The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodzic
  • Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London
  • Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi
  • Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully.

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