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Autore |
Jean-Baptiste Rachel |
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Titolo |
Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / / Rachel Jean-Baptiste |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Collana |
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New African Histories Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Marriage - Gabon - Libreville - History |
Divorce - Gabon - Libreville - History |
Sex - Gabon - Libreville - History |
Customary law - Gabon - Libreville - History |
Gabon History 1839-1960 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating a History of Domestic Life, Sexuality, Being, and Feeling in Urban Africa; Part I: From Atlantic Ocean Trading Post to Colonial Capital City, 1849-1929; 1: Sexual Economy in the Era of Trade and Politics; 2: Planning, Protest, and Prostitution; Part II: Libreville's Growth, 1930-1960; 3: Migration and Governance; 4: The Bridewealth Economy; 5: Jurisprudence; 6: "Faire Bon Ami"(To Be Good Friends); 7: "A Black Girl Should Not Be with a White Man"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferred, and absconded |
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