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Sex, law, and sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 /Judith Surkis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501739521
  • 9781501739514
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KQG469 .S495 2019
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Contents:
Polygamy, public order, and property -- Making the "Muslim family" -- Civilization, the Civil Code, and "child marriage" -- Special mœurs and military exceptions -- Conversion, mixed marriage, and the corporealization of law -- The sexual politics of legal reform -- Colonial literature and customary law -- Epilogue : sex and the centenary.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Bodies of French Algerian law -- Polygamy, public order, and property -- Making the "Muslim family" -- Civilization, the Civil Code, and "child marriage" -- Special mœurs and military exceptions -- Conversion, mixed marriage, and the corporealization of law -- The sexual politics of legal reform -- Colonial literature and customary law -- Epilogue : sex and the centenary.

"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"--

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