Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon - Jean-Baptiste, Rachel (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014)
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.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Marriage -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History; Divorce -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History; Sex -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History; Customary law -- Gabon -- Libreville -- History; Gabon -- History -- 1839-1960.