The bonds of kinship in Dahomey : portraits of West African girlhood, 1720-1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reuther, Jessica Catherine (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Girls > Benin > Economic conditions > 18th century. Girls > Benin > Economic conditions > 19th century. Filles > Bénin > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle. Filles > Bénin > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle. HISTORY / Africa / West Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Portrait of a girl and a fabric seller
1. The value of girls to the royal household of Dahomey, 1720s-1870s
2. Dashing and entrusting girls: the Atlanticization of child transfers during the reigns of Kings Gezo and Glele, 1818-1889
3. Agbessipe and her mother: female wealth, girl pawns, and enslaved labor in Ouidah during the era of "legitimate" trade, 1840s-1880s
4. A runaway girl amid the turmoil of conquest: household economies and colonial transformations in the kingdoms of Hogbonou and Dahomey, 1880s-1890s
5. Entrusted or enslaved?: Colonial legal debates about girls' statuses, 1900s-1930s
6. "Why did you not cry out . . .?": sexual assaults of entrusted girls in colonial Dahomey, 1917-1941
7. The Tele Affair (1936-1938): anxieties about transformations in girlhood in colonial Abomey
Conclusion: obscured histories of girlhood.