Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.

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pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts -- Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe -- Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet -- Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante -- pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry -- Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd -- Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo -- pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop -- The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić -- Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London -- Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi -- Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully.

Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a lived experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis, domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is complex. Using evidence.

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