Format:
1 Online-Ressource (307 p)
ISBN:
9780803286801
Series Statement:
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Untitled -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on "Customs Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa," ca. 1930 -- 2. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in Northern Ghana -- 3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930- 1933 -- 4. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late- Colonial Bawku, 1941- 1948 -- 5. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the Nkrumah Era, 1958- 1966 -- 6. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After Nkrumah, 1965- 1972 -- Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male Gaze -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803286962
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803286801
Additional Edition:
Print version Cammaert, Jessica Undesirable Practices : Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972 Lincoln, NE : UNP - Nebraska,c2016 ISBN 9780803286801
Language:
English
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