Marriage, perversion, and power : the construction of moral discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930
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Marriage, perversion, and power : the construction of moral discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930
（Oxford studies in African affairs）
Clarendon Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is the first scholarly study of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early twentieth century. It is a highly original and cogently argued history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa. Diana Jeater's analysis pays careful attention to methodological questions and fruitfully combines historical and anthropological approaches.
Dr Jeater examines the marriage relationship and the regulation of sexuality in terms of both the poltiical and the production systems, and offers valuable insights into the nature of gender relationships before and during the colonial period. She analyses colonial ideology, its contradictions and its effects on the people of Southern Rhodesia, and explores the interactions between black and white, male and female. Marriage, Perversion, and Power is an important contribution to African history
and to the study of gender relations.
Table of Contents
- In search of the moral realm - a theoretical and historical starting point, Gwelo District 1893
- civilization and morality - Manichaean attitudes among the occupiers of southern Rhodesia, 1890-1905
- maidens and harlots - "moral" legislation, 1901-1912
- part-time love affairs - changing marriage arrangements in Gwelo District, 1898-1914
- "the problem with women" - the natives adultery punishment ordinance, 1916
- the pointing finger - ascriptions of blame in the debate over adultery
- township trouble - urban sexuality in Gwelo District, 1916-1920
- "tradition" and power - transformations of African marriage, 1914-1926
- the closing door - African women and European morality, 1916-1930.
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