{"product_id":"sex-law-and-sovereignty-in-french-algeria-18301930-corpus-juris-the-humanities-in-politics-and-law-9781501739507","title":"Sex  Law  and Sovereignty in French Algeria  18301930 (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail  with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels)  exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out. Joan Wallach Scott  author of Sex and Secularism During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria  the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law  while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex  Law  and Sovereignty in French Algeria  18301930  Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. In disconnecting Muslim law from property rights  French officials increasingly attached it to the bodies  beliefs  and personhood. Surkis argues that powerful affective attachments to the intimate life of the family and fantasies about Algerian women and the sexual prerogatives of Muslim men  supposedly codified in the practices of polygamy and child marriage  shaped French theories and regulatory practices of Muslim law in fundamental and lasting ways. Womens legal status in particular came to represent the dense relationship between sex and sovereignty in the colony. This book also highlights the ways in which Algerians interacted with and responded to colonial law. Ultimately  this sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria elucidates how \"the Muslim question\" in France becameand remainsa question of sex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665830010933,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501739506","price":53.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501739507.jpg?v=1782409035","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sex-law-and-sovereignty-in-french-algeria-18301930-corpus-juris-the-humanities-in-politics-and-law-9781501739507","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}