Conjugal Rights
Title | Conjugal Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Jean-Baptiste |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821445030 |
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferred, and absconded with money to facilitate interpersonal relationships. Colonial rule increased the fluidity of customary marriage law, as chiefs and colonial civil servants presided over multiple courts, and city residents strategically chose the legal arena in which to arbitrate a conjugal-sexual conflict. Sexual and domestic relationships with European men allowed some African women to achieve a greater degree of economic and social mobility. An eventual decline of marriage rates resulted in new sexual mores, as women and men sought to rebalance the roles of pleasure, respectability, and legality in having sex outside of kin-sanctioned marriage. Rachel Jean-Baptiste expands the discourse on sexuality in Africa and challenges conventional understandings of urban history beyond the study of the built environment. Marriage and sexual relations determined how people defined themselves as urbanites and shaped the shifting physical landscape of Libreville. Conjugal Rights takes a fresh look at questions of the historical construction of race and ethnicity. Despite the efforts of the French colonial government and society to enforce boundaries between black and white, interracial sexual and domestic relationships persisted. Black and métisse women gained economic and social capital from these relationships, allowing some measure of freedom in the colonial capital city.
A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas
Title | A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Ocie Speer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1174 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Divorce |
ISBN |
Conjugal Rights, and Other Stories
Title | Conjugal Rights, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Rita |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
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Conjugal Visits in Prison
Title | Conjugal Visits in Prison PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Burstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Conjugal Union
Title | Conjugal Union PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Lee |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2014-08-11 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1107059925 |
"During a recent day-time television talk show a young woman was informed that her husband had offered her best friend 500 dollars to have sex with him. Needless to say, the young woman (the wife) became very angry and she (along with the talk-show host and most of the audience present) viewed this act as an egregious betrayal"--
The Law for the Restitution of Conjugal Rights: as it Stands and Should be Amended
Title | The Law for the Restitution of Conjugal Rights: as it Stands and Should be Amended PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | |
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Australian Annual Digest
Title | Australian Annual Digest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |