Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.
Contributor(s): Burrill, Emily [editor.] | Roberts, Richard L [editor.] | Thornberry, Elizabeth [editor.].
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BookSeries: New African histories series: Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010]Copyright date: �2010Description: 1 online resource (314 pages) : maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821443453 (e-book).Subject(s): Family violence -- Africa -- History | Family violence -- Law and legislation -- Africa -- History | Justice, Administration of -- Africa -- History | Colonies -- Africa -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.82/92096 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
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 Hod�zi�c -- 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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