Burrill, Emily, author.
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
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Part of the series New African histories;New African histories series.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215 -232) and index.
• Introduction: States of marriage in colonial West Africa — Locating gendered knowledge and authority in Sikasso at the turn of the century — Contesting slavery and marriage in early colonial Sikasso — Returned soldiers and runaway wives : defining the African family in the French Sudan, 1912/30 — Wealth in women, wealth in men : the global depression of the 1930s, competing labor obligations, and the Mandel Decree — Defining the limits and bargains of patriarchy : narratives of domestic violence — Gender justice and the marriage legibility projects of late colonial French Sudan — Conclusion: There are always laws that are not practiced .

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