This article assesses the Liberal and Fascist administrations’ shifting attitudes towards colonial concubinage during the years of the repression of the anti-colonial resistance in Italian Libya (1911–32). Also known as mabruchismo, concubinage in Libya closely resembled its counterpart in Italian Eastern Africa, as it involved middle- to upper-class Italian officers coercing colonised women into engaging in often exploitative intimate relationships. During the first 20 years of colonisation of the territory, the colony's military administration employed an ambiguous stance regarding the practice, condemning it discursively to ingratiate itself with the local elites while unofficially allowing it to provide safe sex to its officers. When the resistance was defeated in the early 1930s, and the Fascist administration began its demographic colonisation plans, colonial concubinage was prohibited as out of place in a racially segregated settler colony. This article employs an analysis of official archival sources to trace the regulatory framework that shaped the lives of the Libyan women and Italian officers engaged in concubinage in a shifting colonial society. The colonial administrations’’ regulatory efforts toward colonial concubinage testify to the crucial role that Libyan women and racially ‘‘mixed’’ relationships played in shaping categories of race, class, and gender relative to the Italian colonial context.

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Mabruchismo：意大利利比亚的纳妾制和殖民权力（1911-1932）

本文评估了在意大利利比亚镇压反殖民抵抗运动期间（1911-32 年），自由党和法西斯政府对殖民纳妾的态度转变。也被称为马布鲁基主义，利比亚的纳妾制度与意大利东非的纳妾制度非常相似，因为它涉及意大利中上层阶级的军官，强迫被殖民的妇女从事经常具有剥削性的亲密关系。在该领土殖民化的头 20 年中，殖民地的军事管理部门对这种做法采取了模棱两可的立场，口头谴责它迎合当地精英，同时非正式地允许它向其军官提供安全性行为。当抵抗在 1930 年代初被击败，法西斯政府开始其人口殖民计划时，在种族隔离的定居者殖民地中，殖民地的纳妾被禁止。本文通过对官方档案来源的分析，追溯了在不断变化的殖民社会中塑造了利比亚妇女和意大利官员纳妾生活的监管框架。殖民政府对殖民纳妾的监管努力证明了利比亚妇女和种族“混合”关系在塑造相对于意大利殖民背景的种族、阶级和性别类别方面发挥的关键作用。