03081nam 2200637 450 991078651420332120230803203956.00-8214-4503-0(CKB)3710000000213065(EBL)1753410(OCoLC)885123165(SSID)ssj0001288526(PQKBManifestationID)11707742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288526(PQKBWorkID)11293935(PQKB)10875680(MiAaPQ)EBC1753410(Au-PeEL)EBL1753410(CaPaEBR)ebr10904583(EXLCZ)99371000000021306520140810h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrConjugal rights marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon /Rachel Jean-BaptisteAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (317 p.)New African Histories SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2120-4 0-8214-2119-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexConjugal 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 abscondedNew African histories series.MarriageGabonLibrevilleHistoryDivorceGabonLibrevilleHistorySexGabonLibrevilleHistoryCustomary lawGabonLibrevilleHistoryGabonHistory1839-1960MarriageHistory.DivorceHistory.SexHistory.Customary lawHistory.306.8096721Jean-Baptiste Rachel1559413MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786514203321Conjugal rights3824485UNINA