The Age of Sex: Custom, Law, and Ritual in Twentieth-Century East Africa: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
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The “age of sex,” a term Decker conceptualizes in this carefully researched monograph, refers to the hypothetical moment when a “girl” becomes a “woman” capable of engaging in heterosexual activity, and a “boy” becomes a “man” imbued with the right and responsibility to have heterosexual intercourse. Colonial ethnographic studies reduced complex precolonial rites of passage to “puberty rites” fixated on these sexual transformations. The resulting stereotypes influenced, in turn, how colonial and postcolonial court officials decided age-of-consent and other sex crime cases. Court rituals thus legally transformed girls into women by ruling on their sexual maturity, and boys into men by sentencing them to corporal punishment marking their acceptance of sexual responsibilities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299352004
ISBN-10: 0299352005
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
ISBN-10: 0299352005
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Notă biografică
Corrie Decker is a professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa and coauthor of The Idea of Development in Africa: A History.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Age of Sex in Ethnography
1 Rites of Passage
2 Puberty Rites
3 Sexual Rites
Part II: The Age of Sex in the Courts
4 The Age of Institutions
5 Sexual Ability
6 Rights and Responsibilities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part I: The Age of Sex in Ethnography
1 Rites of Passage
2 Puberty Rites
3 Sexual Rites
Part II: The Age of Sex in the Courts
4 The Age of Institutions
5 Sexual Ability
6 Rights and Responsibilities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“Decker’s decolonial-historical analysis of the intersecting concepts of sexuality and age is a refreshing eye-opener, revealing the embeddedness of these concepts in complex cultural, economic, and political constructions coupled with racist imperial (mis)representations. It is an invitation to rethink conventional sex laws.”