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287 Selected Bibiliography This is a consolidated list of recommended readings drawn from the chapters in this volume. We urge readers to consult the more extensive notes for each chapter. Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Allman, Jean, and Victoria Tashjian.“I Will Not Eat Stone”: A Women’s History of Colonial Asante. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. Andall, Jacqueline, and Derek Duncan, eds. Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory. Bern/Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. Anderson, J. N. D. Islamic Law in Africa. New impression with preface. London: Frank Cass, 1970. Appiah, Dorcas Coker, and Kathy Cusack, eds. Breaking the Silence and Challenging the Myths of Violence against Women and Children in Ghana: Report of a National Study on Violence. Accra, Ghana: Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, 1999. Arab, Adel. “Senegal: Civil Society Suggests a Review of the Bill Modifying the Family Code.” Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights Newsletter 75 (2002). Bang, Anne K. Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Barrera, Giulia. “Colonial Affairs: Italian Men, Eritrean Women, and the Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2002. Bayefsky, Anne F. The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads . Ardsley, Ny: Transnational, 2001. Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, and Mia Fuller, eds. Italian Colonialism. New york: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Benton, Lauren. “Colonial Law and Cultural Difference: Jurisdictional Politics and the Formation of the Colonial State,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, no. 3 (1999): 563–88 — — —. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900. New york: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Bernault, Florence, ed. Enfermement, prison et châtiments. Paris: Karthala, 1999. Bledsoe, Caroline, “‘No Success without Struggle’: Social Mobility and Hardship for Foster Children in Sierra Leone.” Man 25, no. 1 (1990): 70–88. Bop, Codou. Islam and Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Senegal. Atlanta: Religion and Human Rights Project, Emory University School of Law, 2003. 288 w฀฀Selected Bibliography — — —. “Islam and Women’s Sexual Health and Rights in Senegal.” Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 2, no. 1 (2005): 1–30. Brietzke, Paul, “Murder and Manslaughter in Malawi’s Traditional Courts.” Journal of African Law 18, no. 1 (1974): 37–56. Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich. “Feminist Justice, at Home and Abroad: Feminism and International Law: An Opportunity for Transformation.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 14, no. 2 (2002): 345–61. Brown, Wendy. “Finding the Man in the State.” Feminist Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 7–34. Burdett, Charles. Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars. New york: Berghan Books, 2007. Burrill, Emily. “Disputing Wife Abuse: Tribunal Narratives of the Corporal Punishment of Wives in Colonial Sikasso, 1930s.” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 47, no. 3–4 (2007): 603–22. Byfield, Judith. “Women, Marriage, Divorce and the Emerging Colonial State in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892–1904.” In “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy, 27–46. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. Camara, Fatou. “Women and the Law: A Critique of Senegalese Family Law.” Social Identities 13, no. 6 (2007): 787–800. Carsten, Janet. The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and Le Groupe de Recherche sur les Femmes et les Lois au Senegal. Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives: Francophone Africa. New york: Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, 1999. — — —. Women’s Reproductive Rights in Senegal: A Shadow Report. New york and Dakar: Center for Reproductive Rights and GREFELS, 2001. Chadwick, Roger. Bureaucratic Mercy: The Home Office and the Treatment of Capital Cases in Victorian Britain. London: Garland, 1992. Chanock, Martin. Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Ciekawy, Diane. “Witchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya.” African Studies Review 41, no. 3 (1998): 119–42. Clark, Anna. Women’s Silence, Men’s Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770– 1845. New york: Pandora, 1987. Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. “Law and Disorder in the Postcolony: An Introduction.” In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, 1–56. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Creevey, Lucy. “Islam, Women and the Role of the State in Senegal.” Journal...

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