Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
(Part of the Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law Series)
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This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.― Joan Wallach Scott, author of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501739506
ISBN13:9781501739507
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:354 Pages
Weight:1.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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