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Conjugal Rights : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon.
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | New African histories series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821445037 0821445030 0821421190 9780821421192 9780821421208 0821421204 |