Marriage, Perversion, and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930

This is the first scholarly study of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early twentieth century. It is a highly original and cogently argued history of sexuality and gender relations in colonial Africa. Diana Jeater's analysis pays careful attention to methodological questions and fruitfully combines historical and anthropological approaches. She examines the marriage relationship and the regulation of sexuality in terms of both the political and the production sys…