Emily S Burrill: 2 books
Marriage by Force?
Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, 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 has changed over time and place,...
States of Marriage
Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideological...