ISBN:
9780821445037
,
0821445030
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (317 pages)
Series Statement:
New African Histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jean-Baptiste, Rachel Conjugal Rights : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
DDC:
306.8096721
Keywords:
Marriage History
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Gabon
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Libreville
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Divorce History
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Gabon
;
Libreville
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Sex History
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Gabon
;
Libreville
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Customary law History
;
Gabon
;
Libreville
;
Divorce History
;
Sex History
;
Customary law History
;
Marriage History
;
Customary law Libreville
;
History
;
Gabon
;
Divorce Libreville
;
History
;
Gabon
;
Gabon History
;
1839-1960
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Marriage Libreville
;
History
;
Gabon
;
Sex Libreville
;
History
;
Gabon
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Customary law
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Divorce
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Marriage
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Sex
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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History
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Gabon History
;
1839-1960
;
Gabon
;
Gabon
;
Libreville
;
Gabon History 1839-1960
;
Gabon
;
Gabon ; Libreville
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
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