Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.82/92096 |
Collana | New African histories series |
Soggetto topico |
Family violence - Africa - History
Family violence - Law and legislation - Africa - History Justice, Administration of - Africa - History Colonies - Africa - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8214-4345-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe -- Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet -- Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante -- ; pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry -- Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd -- Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo -- ; pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop -- The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić -- Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London -- Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi -- Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464139203321 |
Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.82/92096 |
Collana | New African histories series |
Soggetto topico |
Family violence - Africa - History
Family violence - Law and legislation - Africa - History Justice, Administration of - Africa - History Colonies - Africa - History |
ISBN | 0-8214-4345-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe -- Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet -- Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante -- ; pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry -- Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd -- Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo -- ; pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop -- The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić -- Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London -- Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi -- Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788351803321 |
Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.82/92096 |
Collana | New African histories series |
Soggetto topico |
Family violence - Africa - History
Family violence - Law and legislation - Africa - History Justice, Administration of - Africa - History Colonies - Africa - History |
ISBN | 0-8214-4345-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe -- Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet -- Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante -- ; pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry -- Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd -- Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo -- ; pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop -- The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić -- Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London -- Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi -- Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828959503321 |
Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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