Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

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Other Authors: Burrill, Emily (Editor), Roberts, Richard L., 1949- (Editor), Thornberry, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010]
Series:New African histories series.
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505 0 0 |g pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family.  |t Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 /  |r Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts --  |t Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 /  |r Cati Coe --  |t Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 /  |r Marie Rodet --  |t Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 /  |r Martina Salvante --  |g pt. 2. Narating domestic violence.  |t Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape /  |r Elizabeth Thornberry --  |t Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s /  |r Elke E. Stockreiter --  |t Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 /  |r Stacey Hynd --  |t Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate /  |r Katherine Luongo --  |g pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa.  |t "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal /  |r Codou Bop --  |t The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy /  |r Saida Hodžić --  |t Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse /  |r Scott London --  |t Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa /  |r Benedetta Faedi --  |t Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights /  |r Pamela Scully. 
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