TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunting,Annie
AU  - Lawrance,Benjamin N.
AU  - Roberts,Richard L.
TI  - Marriage by force?: contestation over consent and coercion in Africa 
SN  - 9780821445495
AV  - HQ691 .M354 2016eb
U1  - 306.84096 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Forced marriage
KW  - Africa
KW  - Child marriage
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: something old, something new? Conceptualizing forced marriage in Africa / Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts -- Colonial struggles -- 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 -- Postindependence transformations -- 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 -- Contemporary perspectives -- 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 -- Afterword: historicizing social justice and the longue dur�ee of forced marriage / Emily S. Burrill
N2  - With forced marriage, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that varies over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and practitioners contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in labor mobilization, wealth accumulation, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriage and other forms of gendered violence, bondage, slavery, and servile status
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