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      Conjugal Rights

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES SERIES

      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN AND ALLEN ISAACMAN AND DEREK R. PETERSON

       Books in this series are published with support from the Ohio University National Resource Center for African Studies.

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       Conjugal Rights

       Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

      Rachel Jean-Baptiste

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      “ ‘A Black Girl Should Not Be with a White Man’: Sex, Race, and African Women’s Social and Legal Status in Colonial Gabon, c. 1900–1946.’ ” Copyright © 2010 Journal of Women’s History. This article was first published in Journal of Women’s History 22, no. 2 (2010): 56–82. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.

      “ ‘The Option of the Judicial Path’: Disputes over Marriage, Divorce, and Extra-Marital Sex in Colonial Courts in Libreville, Gabon (1939–1959).”

      This article was first published in Cahiers d’études africaines 187–88 (2007): 643–70.

      Reprinted with permission.

      “ ‘These Laws Should be Made by Us’: Customary Marriage Law, Codification and Political Authority in Twentieth-Century Colonial Gabon.” This article was first published in the Journal of African History 49, no. 2 (July 2008): 217–40.

      Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Jean-Baptiste, Rachel, author.

      Conjugal rights : marriage, sexuality, and urban life in colonial

      Libreville, Gabon / Rachel Jean-Baptiste.

      pages cm. — (New African histories)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8214-2119-2 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-2120-8

      (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4503-7 (pdf)

      1. Marriage—Gabon—Libreville—History. 2. Divorce—Gabon—Libreville—History. 3. Sex—Gabon—Libreville—History. 4. Customary law—Gabon—Libreville—History. 5. Gabon—History—1839–1960. I. Title. II. Series: New African histories series.

      HQ694.9.J43 2014

      306.8096721—dc23

      2014014964

       In memory of Lumen and Emanuel Georges and Melanie and Pierre Jean-Baptiste

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

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