Marriage by Force? : Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa /

With forced marriage, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that varies over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Roberts, Richard L., 1949- (Editor ), Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas) (Editor ), Bunting, Annie, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women's rights.
Marriage customs and rites.
Forced marriage.
Child marriage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Women's rights > Africa.
Marriage customs and rites > Africa.
Child marriage > Africa.
Forced marriage > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: something old, something new? Conceptualizing forced marriage in Africa / Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts
  • Colonial struggles
  • Constrained consent: women, marriage, and household instability in colonial French West Africa, 1905-60 / Richard L. Roberts
  • Forced marriage, gender, and consent in Igboland, 1900-1936 / Olatunji Ojo
  • Debating "early marriage" in colonial Kenya, 1920-50 / Brett L. Shadle
  • Italian weddings and memory of trauma: colonial domestic policy in southern Somalia, 1910-41 / Francesca Declich
  • Postindependence transformations
  • Ukuthwala, forced marriage, and the idea of custom in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
  • Concubinage as forced marriage? Colonial jawari, contemporary hartaniyya, and marriage in Mauritania / E. Ann McDougall
  • Challenges and constraints: forced marriage as a form of "traditional" practice in The Gambia / Bala Saho
  • Resisting patriarchy, contesting homophobia: expert testimony and the construction of forced marriage in African asylum claims / Benjamin N. Lawrance and Charlotte Walker-Said
  • Contemporary perspectives
  • Consent, custom, and the law in debates around forced marriage at the special court for Sierra Leone / Mariane C. Ferme
  • Between global standards and local realities: Shari'a and mass marriage programs in northern Nigeria / Judith-Ann Walker
  • Dreams of my mother: good news on ending early marriage / Muadi Mukenge
  • "To be taken as a wife is a form of death": the social, military, and humanitarian dynamics of forced marriage and girl soldiers in African conflicts, c. 1990-2010 / Stacey Hynd
  • Afterword: historicizing social justice and the longue duree of forced marriage / Emily S. Burrill.

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