Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / / Rachel Jean-Baptiste
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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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8214-4503-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807229603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New African histories series.