Following tirailleurs sénégalais' deployments in West Africa,
Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and
Algeria from the 1880s to 1962, Militarizing Marriage historicizes
how African servicemen advanced conjugal strategies with women at
home and abroad. Sarah J. Zimmerman examines the evolution of
women's conjugal relationships with West African colonial soldiers
to show how the sexuality, gender, and exploitation of women were
fundamental to the violent colonial expansion and the everyday
operation of colonial rule in modern French Empire. These conjugal
behaviors became military marital traditions that normalized the
intimate manifestation of colonial power in social reproduction
across the empire. Soldiers' cross-colonial and interracial
households formed at the intersection of race and sexuality outside
the colonizer/colonized binary. Militarizing Marriage uses
contemporary feminist scholarship on militarism and violence to
portray how the subjugation of women was indispensable to military
conquest and colonial rule.
General
Imprint: |
Ohio University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
War and Militarism in African History |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
First published: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Sarah J. Zimmerman
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
318 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8214-2447-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-8214-2447-5 |
Barcode: |
9780821424476 |
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