Love and violence in Sierra Leone : mediating intimacy after conflict /
In the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In this ethnography, Luisa T. Schneider explores the intricate semantic, empirical and socio-legal dy...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Cambridgef ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Colecção: | international African library ;
73. |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009532990 |
Sumário:
- Access, methodology and ethics
- The impact of violence on relationships
- Loving and living relationships in Freetown today
- The spectrum of violence in relationships
- The language of violence
- Household and community mediations of violence
- Invoking the state : when adults report violence in their relationships to the police
- Minors before the law : building futures, policing sex
- Perpetrators? The consequence of the Sexual Offences Act for young men.