Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa, edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry

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Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa, edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry

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edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry

Instantiates

• Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Publication

• Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2010

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• ©2010

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index

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Contents

• 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. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family.
• 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
• Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12
• Pamela Scully
• 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

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FIEb17371181

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24 cm.

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viii, 303 pages

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9780821419298

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unmediated

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• n

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u299683

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(OCoLC)475442794