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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Emily S. BurrillPublisher: Ohio University Press Imprint: Ohio University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780821421444ISBN 10: 0821421441 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 April 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsStates of Marriage is a deftly written, sophisticated book that demonstrates the centrality of marriage to colonial gender-making projects in French Sudan. Burrill draws on an extraordinary range of evidence and theories to analyze the shifting ideas and practices of marriage as a prism into the conjuncture of gendered and generational struggles, legal reforms, and colonial interventions. A must read for scholars of African history and gender studies. -Dorothy L. Hodgson, professor of anthropology, Rutgers University and editor of The Gender, Culture and Power Reader and Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights States of Marriage is a deftly written, sophisticated book that demonstrates the centrality of marriage to colonial gender-making projects in French Sudan. Burrill draws on an extraordinary range of evidence and theories to analyze the shifting ideas and practices of marriage as a prism into the conjuncture of gendered and generational struggles, legal reforms, and colonial interventions. A must read for scholars of African history and gender studies. -Dorothy L. Hodgson, professor of anthropology, Rutgers University and editor of The Gender, Culture and Power Reader and Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights Emily Burrill's insightful analysis of marriage, gender justice, and rights in colonial Mali deftly analyzes the ways in which colonial laws on marriage ... both contributed in essential ways to the colonial state-building project and undermined existing social dynamics, thereby 'unmaking the world.' ... Burrill's book is a welcome addition to our understanding of gender, justice, human rights, and the colonial state. It is persuasive and well written and is essential reading for scholars interested not only in colonialism and gender but also in law and society. -African Studies Review States of Marriage is a deftly written, sophisticated book that demonstrates the centrality of marriage to colonial gender-making projects in French Sudan. Burrill draws on an extraordinary range of evidence and theories to analyze the shifting ideas and practices of marriage as a prism into the conjuncture of gendered and generational struggles, legal reforms, and colonial interventions. A must read for scholars of African history and gender studies. Dorothy L. Hodgson, professor of anthropology, Rutgers University and editor of The Gender, Culture and Power Reader and Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights Author InformationEmily S. Burrill is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coeditor of Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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