Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa /
Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa /
edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.
- [x], 303 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 24 cm.
- New African histories series .
- New African histories series. .
Incluye bibliografía (p. 287-294).
_ Domestic violence and the law in Africa / Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Sex, violence, and family in South Africa´s Eastern Cape / Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / ´I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle...´ : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry -- Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Cati Coe -- Marie Rodet -- Martina Salvante -- Elizabeth Thornberry -- Elke E. Stockreiter -- Stacey Hynd -- Katherine Luongo -- Codou Bop -- Saida Hodžić -- Scott London -- Benedetta Faedi -- Pamela Scully. Introduction : Afterword :
0821419285 0821419293 0821443453 9780821419281 9780821419298 9780821443453
Administración de justicia.--Historia.--África
Colonias.--Historia.--África
Violencia conyugal.--Legislación--Historia.--África
Violencia conyugal.--Historia.--África
362.82 / D668 2010
Incluye bibliografía (p. 287-294).
_ Domestic violence and the law in Africa / Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Sex, violence, and family in South Africa´s Eastern Cape / Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / ´I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle...´ : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry -- Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Cati Coe -- Marie Rodet -- Martina Salvante -- Elizabeth Thornberry -- Elke E. Stockreiter -- Stacey Hynd -- Katherine Luongo -- Codou Bop -- Saida Hodžić -- Scott London -- Benedetta Faedi -- Pamela Scully. Introduction : Afterword :
0821419285 0821419293 0821443453 9780821419281 9780821419298 9780821443453
Administración de justicia.--Historia.--África
Colonias.--Historia.--África
Violencia conyugal.--Legislación--Historia.--África
Violencia conyugal.--Historia.--África
362.82 / D668 2010