ASR Forum: The politics of marriage in South Africa

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Title:	ASR Forum: The politics of marriage in South Africa
Editor:	Healy-Clancy, Meghan
Year:	2014
Periodical:	African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462)
Volume:	57
Issue:	2
Pages:	1-92
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	marriage social history
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.44
Abstract:	The articles in this 'ASR Forum' trace a history of the politics of marriage in South Africa: from the colonial consolidation of the authority of young husbands, to the self-assertion (as well as restriction) of young wives in the segregationist Union of South Africa, to the decline of marriage amidst enduring longing for domestic security. Articles: The politics of new African marriage in segregationist South Africa (Meghan Healy-Clancy); The white wedding: affect and economy in South Africa in the early twentieth century (Natasha Erlank); Marriage and bridewealth (ilobolo) in contemporary Zulu society (Dorrit Posel and Stephanie Rudwick); African marriage regulation and the remaking of gendered authority in colonial Natal, 1843-1875 (Nafisa Essop Sheik). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]