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Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / / Rachel Jean-Baptiste



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Autore: Jean-Baptiste Rachel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / / Rachel Jean-Baptiste Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina: 306.8096721
Soggetto topico: Marriage - Gabon - Libreville - History
Divorce - Gabon - Libreville - History
Sex - Gabon - Libreville - History
Customary law - Gabon - Libreville - History
Soggetto geografico: Gabon History 1839-1960
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Conjugal rights  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8214-4503-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465376903321
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Serie: New African histories series.