Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial Libreville, Gabon / Rachel Jean-Baptiste.
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TextSeries: New African histories seriesPublication details: Athens: Ohio University Press, c2014.Description: xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780821421192 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780821421208 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780821445037 (pdf)
- 306.8096721Â 23
- HQ694.9Â .J43 2014
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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.
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