03983nam a2200505 i 4500 ebr10904204 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 100430t20102010ohub ob 001 0 eng|d 9780821419281 (hc : alk. paper) 0821419285 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821419298 (pb : alk. paper) 0821419293 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821443453 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)794924337 f------ HV6626.23.A35 D66 2010eb 362.82/92096 22 Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010] �2010 1 online resource (314 pages) : maps. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier New African histories series Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index. pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe -- Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet -- Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante -- pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry -- Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd -- Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo -- pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop -- The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hod�zi�c -- Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London -- Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi -- Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Family violence Africa History. Family violence Law and legislation Africa History. Justice, Administration of Africa History. Colonies Africa History. Electronic books. Burrill, Emily, editor. Roberts, Richard L., 1949- editor. Thornberry, Elizabeth, editor. Print version: Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010] viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm New African histories series 9780821419281 (OCoLC)ocn475442794 (DLC)10904204 ebrary. New African histories series. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10904204 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 165265 165265