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States of marriage : gender, justice, and rights in colonial Mali / Emily S. Burrill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1001 .S738 2015
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Contents:
Introduction: States of marriage in colonial West Africa -- Locating gendered knowledge and authority in Sikasso at the turn of the century -- Contesting slavery and marriage in early colonial Sikasso -- Returned soldiers and runaway wives : defining the African family in the French Sudan, 1912/30 -- Wealth in women, wealth in men : the global depression of the 1930s, competing labor obligations, and the Mandel Decree -- Defining the limits and bargains of patriarchy : narratives of domestic violence -- Gender justice and the marriage legibility projects of late colonial French Sudan -- Conclusion: "There are always laws that are not practiced".
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: States of marriage in colonial West Africa -- Locating gendered knowledge and authority in Sikasso at the turn of the century -- Contesting slavery and marriage in early colonial Sikasso -- Returned soldiers and runaway wives : defining the African family in the French Sudan, 1912/30 -- Wealth in women, wealth in men : the global depression of the 1930s, competing labor obligations, and the Mandel Decree -- Defining the limits and bargains of patriarchy : narratives of domestic violence -- Gender justice and the marriage legibility projects of late colonial French Sudan -- Conclusion: "There are always laws that are not practiced".

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