Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa
By: edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry
Series: New African histories series; New African histories series
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780821419281; 9780821419298; 9780821443453
Subjects: Colonies; Law and legislation; Family violence; Administration of Justice; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family.; title: Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12  -- Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts; title: Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28  -- Cati Coe; title: Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949  -- Marie Rodet; title: Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40  -- Martina Salvante -- pt. 2. Narating domestic violence.; title: Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape  -- Elizabeth Thornberry; title: Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s  -- Elke E. Stockreiter; title: Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56  -- Stacey Hynd; title: 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.; title: "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal  -- Codou Bop; title: The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy  -- Saida Hodžić; title: Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse  -- Scott London; title: Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa  -- Benedetta Faedi; title: Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights -- Pamela Scully.