Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781501739491
Subjects: Law, algeria
Description: "By demonstrating how the French colonial construction of Muslim law was progressively detached from land and bound to the bodies of Algerian persons and their families, this book elucidates how and why "the Muslim question" became a sexual question--and why it remains one, still today"--