| Descript |
1 online resource (317 pages) |
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New African Histories |
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New African histories series.
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| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating a History of Domestic Life, Sexuality, Being, and Feeling in Urban Africa; Part I: From Atlantic Ocean Trading Post to Colonial Capital City, 1849-1929; 1: Sexual Economy in the Era of Trade and Politics; 2: Planning, Protest, and Prostitution; Part II: Libreville's Growth, 1930-1960; 3: Migration and Governance; 4: The Bridewealth Economy; 5: Jurisprudence; 6: "Faire Bon Ami"(To Be Good Friends); 7: "A Black Girl Should NotBe with a White Man"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferr. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Marriage -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Divorce -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Sex -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Customary law -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Gabon -- History -- 1839-1960.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Customary law. (OCoLC)fst00885510 |
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Divorce. (OCoLC)fst00895809 |
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Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443 |
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160 |
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Gabon. (OCoLC)fst01205420 |
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Gabon -- Libreville. (OCoLC)fst01206242 |
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1839-1960 |
| ISBN |
9780821445037 (electronic bk.) |
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0821445030 (electronic bk.) |
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0821421190 |
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9780821421192 |
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9780821421208 |
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0821421204 |
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9780821421192 |
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