Conjugal rights :
Jean-Baptiste, Rachel,
Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / Rachel Jean-Baptiste. - Athens: Ohio University Press, c2014. - xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: narrating a history of domestic life, sexuality, and being in urban Africa -- From Atlantic Ocean trading post to colonial outpost, 1849-1929 -- Marriage, trade, and the founding of Libreville, 1849-1910 -- Planning, protest, and prostitution : Libreville in the era of timber, 1910-1929 -- Libreville's growth, 1930-1960 -- Migration and governance : the expansion of Libreville -- The bridewealth economy : money and relationships of affinity -- Jurisprudence : marriage and divorce law -- "Faire bon ami" (to be good friends) : sex, pleasure, and punishment -- "A black girl should not be with a white man" : interracial sex, African women, and respectability.
9780821421192 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821421208 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821445037 (pdf)
2014014964
Marriage--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Divorce--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Sex--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Customary law--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Gabon--History--1839-1960.
HQ694.9 / .J43 2014
306.8096721
Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / Rachel Jean-Baptiste. - Athens: Ohio University Press, c2014. - xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: narrating a history of domestic life, sexuality, and being in urban Africa -- From Atlantic Ocean trading post to colonial outpost, 1849-1929 -- Marriage, trade, and the founding of Libreville, 1849-1910 -- Planning, protest, and prostitution : Libreville in the era of timber, 1910-1929 -- Libreville's growth, 1930-1960 -- Migration and governance : the expansion of Libreville -- The bridewealth economy : money and relationships of affinity -- Jurisprudence : marriage and divorce law -- "Faire bon ami" (to be good friends) : sex, pleasure, and punishment -- "A black girl should not be with a white man" : interracial sex, African women, and respectability.
9780821421192 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821421208 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821445037 (pdf)
2014014964
Marriage--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Divorce--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Sex--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Customary law--History.--Gabon--Libreville
Gabon--History--1839-1960.
HQ694.9 / .J43 2014
306.8096721