Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930

by Judith Surkis

Book Overview

This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.― Joan Wallach Scott, author of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501739506
• ISBN13: 9781501739507
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher