Militarizing marriage : West African soldiers' conjugal traditions in modern French empire / Sarah J. Zimmerman.
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TextSeries: War and militarism in African historyPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821440674
- 0821440675
- Soldiers -- Family relationships -- Africa, West
- Military spouses -- Africa, French-speaking West -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- Africa, French-speaking West -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- 1884-1960
- Militaires -- Relations familiales -- Afrique occidentale
- Afrique occidentale francophone -- Histoire -- 1884-1960
- HISTORY / Africa / West
- Soldiers -- Family relationships
- Women -- Social conditions
- French-speaking Western Africa
- West Africa
- 1884-1999
- 960.03 23
- DT532.5 .Z56 2020eb
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"By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of women was indispensable to military conquest and colonial rule across French Empire"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. French African Soldiers and Female Conjugal Partners in Colonial Militarism -- Marrying into the Military: Colonization, Emancipation, and Martial Community in West Africa, 1880-1900 -- Colonial Conquest "en Famille": African Military Households in Congo and Madagascar, 1880-1905 -- Mesdames Tirailleurs and Black Villages: Trans-Saharan Experiences in the Conquest of Morocco, 1908-18 -- Domestic Affairs in the Great War: Legal Plurality, Citizenship, and Family Benefits, 1914-18 -- Challenging Colonial Order: Long-Distance, Interracial, and Cross-Colonial Conjugal Relationships, 1918-46 -- Afro-Vietnamese Military Households in French Indochina and West Africa, 1930-56 -- Epilogue. Decolonization, Algeria, and Legacies.
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