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dc.contributor.authorGendry, T
dc.contributor.authorHynd, S
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-25T12:16:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-27
dc.date.updated2023-07-24T10:05:03Z
dc.description.abstractThis article offers the first comparative analysis of the treatment of African women in British and French criminal law. Using evidence from 115 trial records involving female accused from French West Africa and Kenya, the Gold Coast and Nyasaland, it explores the processes through which ideas of race, status and public order intertwined with European and local African gender norms, both within courtrooms and political offices, to determine the outcome of murder cases involving female accused. The article investigates the development of a colonial “white man’s mercy”, analysing the cultural sensibilities and politico-legal reasoning which led to many African women receiving mercy and judicial leniency. It shows how intersections of racial and gendered stereotypes, many shared across French and British colonial cultures, often worked in favour of African murderesses through the operation of mercy processes. It further explores the treatment of “wicked women” who were only spared execution explicitly on grounds “of [their] sex” and often against the opinion of on-the-ground colonial judges. Finally, it interrogates those cases where women were executed, to highlight the limits of gender in determining sentencing.en_GB
dc.format.extent107-132
dc.identifier.citationVol. 27 (1), pp. 107 - 132en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.4000/chs.3435
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/133653
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-2212-7294 (Hynd, Stacey)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherLibrairie Drozen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 27 October 2024 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.titleAfrican Women, Colonial Justice and White Man's Mercy: Female Murderers and Capital Sentencing under British and French Rule in Africa, c.1920-40sen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2023-07-25T12:16:53Z
dc.identifier.issn1663-4837
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Librairie Droz via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalCrime, History & Societiesen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2023-07-20
dcterms.dateSubmitted2021-10-27
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2023-07-20
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2023-07-24T10:05:25Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.panelCen_GB


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