States of Marriage - Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali

Informationen zum Autor Emily S. Burrill is an associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coeditor of "Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa." Klappentext States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. Zusammenfassung States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges.

Product details

• Authors: Emily S. Burrill
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780821421444
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2144-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New African Histories; New African Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous