Author: Sarah Ghabrial, Department of History, Concordia University - ResearchGate

Abstract: »Laws that shield men from punishment if they marry their victims are so ubiquitous that their genesis is impossible to identify. Rather than attempting to trace the colonial or pre-colonial “origins” of so-called marry-your-rapist laws in Algeria, this article examines particular moments within this thick history. It posits that Algerian colonial courts were sites of confrontation, misrecognition, and occasional confluence between local remedies for unlawful sex and modern legal conceptions of rape inextricable from medicalized methods of detection. Algerian litigants approached French courts in rape cases demanding forms of redress based in vernacular ontologies of equitable restitution and social cohesion. In turn, colonial authorities inferred equivalences between indigenous normative codes, Islamic textual prescriptions, and the French Code Pénal that reshaped the legal and social meaning of rape.« (Source: French Politics, Culture & Society)

Contents:

	Untangling the Global Trajectories of “Marry-Your-Rapist” Laws and Feminist-Legalist Approaches (p. 61)
	Unseeing the Law like a State (p. 63)
	“Someone has advised her to say this so that she can marry me” (p. 64)
	Marriage as “compensation”? (p. 69)
	Mapping “Rape” onto Algerian Social Landscapes (p. 73)
	Reading “Consent” on the Body (p. 75)
	Conclusion (p. 78)
	Notes (p. 79)

Wikipedia: History of Africa: History of Algeria / French Algeria | History of Europe: History of France / French colonial empire | Sex and the law: Rape / History of rape