Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 / / Judith Surkis.

During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and So...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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出版年:2019
语言:English
丛编:Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
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实物描述:1 online resource (354 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones, 2 maps
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. BODIES OF FRENCH ALGERIAN LAW
  • 2. POLYGAMY, PUBLIC ORDER, AND PROPERTY
  • 3. MAKING THE "MUSLIM FAMILY"
  • 4. CIVILIZATION, THE CIVIL CODE, AND "CHILD MARRIAGE"
  • 5. SPECIAL MOEURS AND MILITARY EXCEPTIONS
  • 6. CONVERSION, MIXED MARRIAGE, AND THE CORPOREALIZATION OF LAW
  • 7. THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF LEGAL REFORM
  • 8. COLONIAL LITERATURE AND CUSTOMARY LAW
  • EPILOGUE. Sex and the Centenary
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX