Sex, law, and sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 /

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"By demonstrating how the French colonial construction of Muslim law was progressively detached from land and bound to the bodies of Algerian persons and their families, this book elucidates how and why "the Muslim question" became a sexual question--and why it remains one, still toda...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Surkis, Judith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
1830-1962
Islamic law > Algeria > History.
Domestic relations (Islamic law) > Algeria > History.
Muslims > Legal status, laws, etc. > Algeria > History.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Algeria > History.
Droit islamique > Algérie > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Islamic law.
Muslims > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Algeria > History > 1830-1962.
Algeria.
Sovereignty, Colonial Law, Algeria, Secularism, Fantasy.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bodies of French Algerian law
  • Polygamy, public order, and property
  • Making the "Muslim family"
  • Civilization, the Civil Code, and "child marriage"
  • Special mœurs and military exceptions
  • Conversion, mixed marriage, and the corporealization of law
  • The sexual politics of legal reform
  • Colonial literature and customary law
  • Epilogue : sex and the centenary.

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