Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thornberry, Elizabeth, Roberts, Richard L., 1949-, Burrill, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2010.
Colección:New African histories series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Colonies > Africa > History.
Justice, Administration of > Africa > History.
Family violence > Law and legislation > Africa > History.
Family violence > Africa > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Hodžić
  • 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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