Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Introduction : Domestic violence and the law in Africa / Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry

Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts

Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe

Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet

Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante

Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry

Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter

Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd

Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo

"I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop

The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić

Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London

Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi

Afterword : Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully.