Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (317 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
New African Histories
Parallel Title:
Print version Conjugal Rights : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
DDC:
306.8096721
Keywords:
Electronic books
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, transferred, and absconded
Description / Table of Contents:
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating a History of Domestic Life, Sexuality, Being, and Feeling in Urban Africa; Part I: From Atlantic Ocean Trading Post to Colonial Capital City, 1849-1929; 1: Sexual Economy in the Era of Trade and Politics; 2: Planning, Protest, and Prostitution; Part II: Libreville's Growth, 1930-1960; 3: Migration and Governance; 4: The Bridewealth Economy; 5: Jurisprudence; 6: "Faire Bon Ami"(To Be Good Friends); 7: "A Black Girl Should NotBe with a White Man"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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