Marriage by force? : contestation over consent and coercion in Africa

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Marriage by force? : contestation over consent and coercion in Africa

edited by Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts ; foreword by Doris Buss ; afterword by Emily S. Burrill

Ohio University Press, c2016

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Something old, something new? : conceptualizing forced marriage in Africa / Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts
  • Constrained consent : women, marriage, and household instability in colonial French West Africa, 1905-60 / Richard L. Roberts
  • Forced marriage, gender, and consent in Igboland, 1900-1936 / Olatunji Ojo
  • Debating "early marriage" in colonial Kenya, 1920-50 / Brett L. Shadle
  • Italian weddings and memory of trauma : colonial domestic policy in southern Somalia, 1910-41 / Francesca Declich
  • Ukuthwala, forced marriage, and the idea of custom in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
  • Concubinage as forced marriage? : colonial jawari, contemporary hartaniyya, and marriage in Mauritania / E. Ann McDougall
  • Challenges and constraints : forced marriage as a form of "traditional" practice in the Gambia / Bala Saho
  • Resisting patriarchy, contesting homophobia : expert testimony and the construction of forced marriage in African asylum claims / Benjamin N. Lawrance and Charlotte Walker-Said
  • Consent, custom, and the law in debates around forced marriage at the special court for Sierra Leone / Mariane C. Ferme
  • Between global standards and local realities : Shari'a and mass marriage programs in northern Nigeria / Judith-Ann Walker
  • Dreams of my mother : good news on ending early marriage / Muadi Mukenge
  • To be taken as a wife is a form of death : the social, military, and humanitarian dynamics of forced marriage and girl soldiers in African conflicts, c. 1990-2010 / Stacey Hynd
  • Historicizing social justice and the longue durée of forced marriage / Emily S. Burrill

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