Irresponsible Boys, Promiscuous Girls: Maturity, Gender, and Rape Myths in the Criminal Tribunals of Colonial Dahomey, 1924-1940
Dahomeans believed maturity or rather immaturity played a crucial role in defining what sex acts constituted rape in both the precolonial kingdom of Dahomey and the French colony of the same name. This belief shaped indigenous assessors’ perceptions of who could legitimately claim victimhood versus...
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Revue d’histoire de l’enfance « irrégulière »
2018
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