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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Judith SurkisPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501739491ISBN 10: 1501739492 Pages: 354 Publication Date: 15 December 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction 1. Bodies of French Algerian Law 2. Polygamy, Public Order, and Property 3. Making the ""Muslim Family"" 4. Civilization, the Civil Code, and ""Child Marriage"" 5. Special Mœurs and Military Exceptions 6. Conversion, Mixed Marriage, and the Corporealization of Law 7. The Sexual Politics of Legal Reform 8. Colonial Literature and Customary Law Epilogue: Sex and the Centenary Bibliography"ReviewsThis 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 <I>Sex and Secularism</I> Sex, Law, and Sovereignty opens up new ways to understand debates about religious and sexual pluralism, and marvelously demonstrates how attention to the paradoxical effects of instability and the workings of transgression, scandal, and crisis, lead to critical analytic perspectives. -- Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, author of <I>Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979</I> Surkis combines her careful combing of case files with an equally painstaking review of legal texts, press reports and novels... This approach not only makes the work immensely readable, but also ensures its significant contribution across a number of fields, including histories of gender, law, empire, and emotions. * The Journal of North African Studies * Sex, Law, and Sovereignty opens up new ways to understand debates about religious and sexual pluralism, and marvelously demonstrates how attention to the paradoxical effects of instability and the workings of transgression, scandal, and crisis, lead to critical analytic perspectives. -- Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, author of <I>Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979</I> 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 <I>Sex and Secularism</I> Author InformationJudith Surkis is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is author of Sexing the Citizen. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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