TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burrill,Emily
TI  - States of marriage: gender, justice, and rights in colonial Mali 
T2  - New African histories
SN  - 9780821445143
AV  - HQ1001 .S738 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Mali
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Marriage law
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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"; 2; b
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=973841&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
ER  -