Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law) by Judith Surkis

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law)

Judith Surkis

354 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appro...

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