TY - BOOK AU - Burrill,Emily AU - Roberts,Richard L. AU - Thornberry,Elizabeth TI - Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa T2 - New African histories series AV - HV6626.23.A35 D66 2010eb U1 - 362.82/92096 22 PY - 2010///] CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Family violence KW - Africa KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Colonies KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10904204 ER -