pt. 1. Domestic violence, relationships of servitude, and the family. Domestic violence, colonial courts, and the end of slavery in French Soudan, 1905-12 / Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts
Domestic violence and child circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast, 1905-28 / Cati Coe
Continuum of gendered violence : the colonial invention of female desertion as a customary criminal offense, French Soudan, 1900-1949 / Marie Rodet
Violated domesticity in Italian East Africa, 1937-40 / Martina Salvante
pt. 2. Narating domestic violence. Sex, violence, and family in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s / Elke E. Stockreiter
Fatal families : narratives of spousal killing and domestic violence in murder trials in Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1930-56 / Stacey Hynd
Domestic dramas and occult acts : witchcraft and violence in the arena of the intimate / Katherine Luongo
pt. 3. Domestic violence, conjugal relationships, and the politics of the state in postcolonial Africa. "I killed her because she disobeyed me in wearing this new hairstyle ..." : gender-based violence, laws, and impunity in Senegal / Codou Bop
The logics of controversy : gender violence as a site of frictions in Ghanaian advocacy / Saida Hodžić
Constructing law, contesting violence : the Senegalese family code and narratives of domestic abuse / Scott London
Domestic violence as a human rights violation : the challenges of a regional human rights approach in Africa / Benedetta Faedi
Finding gendered justice in the age of human rights / Pamela Scully.