LEADER 00000cam a2200721Mi 4500 001 ocn885123165 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041100.8 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 140802s2014 ohu o 000 0 eng d 020 9780821445037|q(electronic book) 020 0821445030|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)885123165 040 EBLCP|beng|epn|cEBLCP|dOCLCO|dE7B|dN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ |dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dDEBSZ|dOCLCO|dOCL 043 f-go--- 049 RIDW 050 4 HQ694.9 072 7 POL|x038000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC|x002010|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC|x022000|2bisacsh 082 04 306.8096721 090 HQ694.9 100 1 Jean-Baptiste, Rachel.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/no2007005135 245 10 Conjugal Rights :|bMarriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. 264 1 Athens, OH :|bOhio University Press,|c2014. 300 1 online resource (317 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 New African Histories 505 0 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. 520 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. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 1839-1960|2fast 650 0 Marriage|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85081416|zGabon|zLibreville|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79099509-781|xHistory.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 650 0 Divorce|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85038616|zGabon|zLibreville|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79099509-781|xHistory.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 650 0 Sex|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120549 |zGabon|zLibreville|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n79099509-781|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh99005024 650 0 Customary law|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85034953|zGabon|zLibreville|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79099509-781|xHistory.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 650 7 Marriage.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1010443 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Divorce.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/895809 650 7 Sex.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114160 650 7 Customary law.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/885510 650 7 Marriage.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000990 651 0 Gabon|xHistory|y1839-1960.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /subjects/sh85052662 651 7 Gabon|zLibreville.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1206242 651 7 Gabon.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205420 655 0 Electronic books. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 776 08 |iPrint version:|aJean-Baptiste, Rachel.|tConjugal Rights : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon.|dAthens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2014 830 0 New African histories series.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n2004042563 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=818267|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID