TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jean-Baptiste,Rachel
TI  - Conjugal rights: marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon 
T2  - New African histories
SN  - 9780821421192 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ694.9 .J43 2014
U1  - 306.8096721 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University  Press
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Gabon
KW  - Libreville
KW  - History
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Sex
KW  - Customary law
KW  - 1839-1960
N1  - 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
ER  -