Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

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Preface Introduction: Domestic Violence and the Law in Africa Part I: Domestic Violence, Relationships of Servitude, and the Family 1: Domestic Violence, Colonial Courts, and the End of Slavery in French Soudan, 1905–12 2: Domestic Violence and ChildCirculation in the SoutheasternGold Coast, 1905–28 3: Continuum ofGendered Violence 4: Violated Domesticity in ItalianEast Africa, 1937–40 Part II: Narrating Domestic Violence 5: Sex, Violence, and Family in South Africa’s Eastern Cape 6: Child Marriage andDomestic Violence 7: Fatal Families 8: Domestic Dramas and Occult Acts Part III: Domestic Violence, Conjugal Relationships,and the Politics of the State in Postcolonial Africa 9: “I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle . . .” 10: The Logics of Controversy 11: Constructing Law, Contesting Violence 12: Domestic Violence asa Human Rights Violation Afterword: Finding Gendered Justice in the Age of Human Rights Selected Bibiliography Contributors Index