Irresponsible Boys, Promiscuous Girls: Maturity, Gender, and Rape Myths in the Criminal Tribunals of Colonial Dahomey, 1924-1940

Dahomeans believed maturity or rather immaturity played a crucial role in defining what sex acts constituted rape in both the precolonial kingdom of Dahomey and the French colony of the same name. This belief shaped indigenous assessors’ perceptions of who could legitimately claim victimhood versus...

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Autor principal:	Reuther, Jessica
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Presses universitaires de Rennes 2018
Assuntos:	rape sexuality Dahomey Benin colonial tribunals French West Africa sexual consent maturity viol sexualité Bénin tribunaux coloniaux Afrique occidentale française maturité sexuelle consentement
Acesso em linha:	https://doi.org/10.4000/rhei.4209 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/k9qs https://journals.openedition.org/rhei/4209
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