Militarizing marriage : West African soldiers' conjugal traditions in modern French empire /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | War and militarism in African history.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.