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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimmerman, Sarah J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2020]
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.