LEADER 04527nam 2200649 450 001 9910504304203321 005 20220304032921.0 010 $a0-8214-4549-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000721000 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001674539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16473646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14906948 035 $a(PQKB)11113386 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4536793 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c342d5cf-07d6-49f3-9079-b43c2203c075 035 $a(OCoLC)951028527 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99376 035 $a(PPN)25465102X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000721000 100 $a20160621h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMarriage by force? $econtestation over consent and coercion in Africa /$fedited by Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts ; foreword by Doris Buss ; afterword by Emily S. Burrill 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (359 pages) $cillustrations, maps, tables 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8214-2199-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aWith 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 interpretation or explanation. The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and practitioners contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in labor mobilization, wealth accumulation, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriage and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status. 606 $aForced marriage$zAfrica 606 $aChild marriage$zAfrica 606 $aMarriage customs and rites$zAfrica 606 $aWomen's rights$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$2fast 615 0$aForced marriage 615 0$aChild marriage 615 0$aMarriage customs and rites 615 0$aWomen's rights 676 $a306.84096 702 $aBunting$b Annie$f1964- 702 $aLawrance$b Benjamin N$g(Benjamin Nicholas), 702 $aRoberts$b Richard L.$f1949- 702 $aBuss$b Doris 702 $aBurrill$b Emily S. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910504304203321 996 $aMarriage by force$91903989 997 $aUNINA