Sarah J. Zimmerman

Militarizing Marriage

West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• War and Militarism in African History
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780821424476
• ISBN-10: 0821424475
• Artikelnr.: 60977652

Autorenporträt

Sarah J. Zimmerman is an associate professor in history at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on the experiences of women and the operation of gender in West Africa and French Empire. She has published articles in the International Journal of African Historical Studies and Les Temps modernes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. French African Soldiers and Female Conjugal Partners in
Colonial Militarism
1. Marrying into the Military: Colonization, Emancipation, and Martial
Community in West Africa, 1880–1900
2. Colonial Conquest “en Famille”: African Military Households in Congo and
Madagascar, 1880–1905
3. Mesdames Tirailleurs and Black Villages: Trans-Saharan Experiences in
the Conquest of Morocco, 1908–18
4. Domestic Affairs in the Great War: Legal Plurality, Citizenship, and
Family Benefits, 1914–18
5. Challenging Colonial Order: Long-Distance, Interracial, and
Cross-Colonial Conjugal Relationships,
1918–46
6. Afro-Vietnamese Military Households in French Indochina and West Africa,
1930–56
Epilogue. Decolonization, Algeria, and Legacies