Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Domestic Violence and the Law in Africa -- Part One: Domestic Violence, Relationships of Servitude, and the Family -- Chapter 1 Domestic Violence, Colonial Courts, and the End of Slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 -- Chapter 2 Domestic Violence and Child Circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 -- Chapter 3 Continuum of Gendered Violence: The Colonial Invention of Female Desertion as a Customary Criminal Offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 -- Chapter 4 Violated Domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 -- Part Two: Narrating Domestic Violence -- Chapter 5 Sex, Violence, and Family in South Africa's Eastern Cape -- Chapter 6 Child Marriage and Domestic Violence: Islamic and Colonial Discourses on Gender Relations and Female Status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s -- Chapter 7 Fatal Families: Narratives of Spousal Killing and Domestic Violence in Murder Trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 -- Chapter 8 Domestic Dramas and Occult Acts: Witchcraft and Violence in the Arena of the Intimate -- Part Three: Domestic Violence, Conjugal Relationships, and the Politics of the State in Postcolonial Africa -- Chapter 9 "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle . . .": Gender-Based Violence, Laws, and Impunity in Senegal -- Chapter 10 The Logics of Controversy: Gender Violence as a Site of Frictions in Ghanaian Advocacy -- Chapter 11 Constructing Law, Contesting Violence: The Senegalese Family Code and Narratives of Domestic Abuse -- Chapter 12 Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: The Challenges of a Regional Human Rights Approach in Africa -- Afterword: Finding Gendered Justice in the Age of Human Rights -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency.

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