States of marriage : gender, justice, and rights in colonial Mali /

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States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burrill, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.
Colección:New African histories series.
Temas:
1900-1999
Marriage > Mali > History > 20th century.
Marriage > Political aspects > Mali > History > 20th century.
Marriage law > Mali > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > Mali > History > 20th century.
Mariage > Mali > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mariage > Aspect politique > Mali > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Droits > Mali > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Colonial influence.
Marriage.
Marriage law.
Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Mali > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mali > Colonial influence.
Mali > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Mali > Influence coloniale.
Mali.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: States of marriage in colonial West Africa
  • Locating gendered knowledge and authority in Sikasso at the turn of the century
  • Contesting slavery and marriage in early colonial Sikasso
  • Returned soldiers and runaway wives : defining the African family in the French Sudan, 1912/30
  • Wealth in women, wealth in men : the global depression of the 1930s, competing labor obligations, and the Mandel Decree
  • Defining the limits and bargains of patriarchy : narratives of domestic violence
  • Gender justice and the marriage legibility projects of late colonial French Sudan
  • Conclusion: "There are always laws that are not practiced."

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