Conjugal Rights :: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon.

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 co...

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1. Verfasser: Jean-Baptiste, Rachel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:New African histories series.
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Zusammenfassung: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, transferr.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (317 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821445037
0821445030
0821421190
9780821421192
9780821421208
0821421204

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