LEADER 03081nam 2200637 450 001 9910807229603321 005 20230803203956.0 010 $a0-8214-4503-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000213065 035 $a(EBL)1753410 035 $a(OCoLC)885123165 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001288526 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11707742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288526 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11293935 035 $a(PQKB)10875680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1753410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1753410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904583 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000213065 100 $a20140810h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConjugal rights $emarriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon /$fRachel Jean-Baptiste 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aNew African Histories Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2120-4 311 $a0-8214-2119-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIllustrations; 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 330 $aConjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferred, and absconded 410 0$aNew African histories series. 606 $aMarriage$zGabon$zLibreville$xHistory 606 $aDivorce$zGabon$zLibreville$xHistory 606 $aSex$zGabon$zLibreville$xHistory 606 $aCustomary law$zGabon$zLibreville$xHistory 607 $aGabon$xHistory$y1839-1960 615 0$aMarriage$xHistory. 615 0$aDivorce$xHistory. 615 0$aSex$xHistory. 615 0$aCustomary law$xHistory. 676 $a306.8096721 700 $aJean-Baptiste$b Rachel$01723112 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807229603321 996 $aConjugal rights$94124100 997 $aUNINA