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1 online resource (317 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Marriage -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Marriage. |
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Gabon -- Libreville. |
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History. |
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Divorce -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Divorce. |
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Sex -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Sex. |
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Customary law -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History.
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Customary law. |
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Gabon -- History -- 1839-1960.
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Gabon. |
Chronological Term |
1839-1960 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Marriage. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Jean-Baptiste, Rachel. Conjugal Rights : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2014 |
ISBN |
9780821445037 (electronic book) |
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0821445030 (electronic book) |
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