Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings

Elizabeth Thornberry is a doctoral candidate in African history at Stanford University. --Book Jacket.

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an in

An original and wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania and its influence on the

Examining Islamic court records, this book sheds new light on Zanzibar's history of gender, social and racial identity.