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" Conjugal Rights : "
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846938
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Jean-Baptiste, Rachel.
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Conjugal Rights : : Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon.
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Athens, OH :: Ohio University Press,, 2014.
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New African Histories
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1 online resource (317 pages)
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0821421190
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: 0821421204
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: 0821445030
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: 9780821421192
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: 9780821421208
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: 9780821445037
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9780821421192
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Customary law-- Gabon-- Libreville-- History.
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Divorce-- Gabon-- Libreville-- History.
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Marriage-- Gabon-- Libreville-- History.
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Sex-- Gabon-- Libreville-- History.
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Customary law.
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Divorce.
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Marriage.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Sex.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Gabon, History, 1839-1960.
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Gabon, Libreville.
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Gabon.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.8096721
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HQ694.9
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