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    Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 (2016)
    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8032-8680-1 , 978-0-8032-8694-8 , 978-0-8032-8695-5 , 978-0-8032-8696-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 288 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Series Statement: Expanding Frontiers
    DDC: 305.409667
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    LC 56528
    Keywords: Ghana Beschneidung ; Kind ; Frau ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Körper ; Prostitution ; Adoption ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Postkolonialismus ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of "imperial feminism" and British colonial interventions in "undesirable" cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, nudity, prostitution, and "illicit" adoption as well as the hesitation to impose severe punishments for the slave dealing of females, particularly female children. She examines the gendered power relations and colonial attitudes that targeted women and children spanning pre- and postcolonial periods, the early postindependence years, and post-Nkrumah policies. In particular, Cammaert examines the limits of the male colonial gaze and argues that the power lay not in the gaze itself but in the act of "looking away," a calculated aversion of attention intended to maintain the tribal community and retain control over the movement, sexuality, and labor of women and children. With its examination of broader time periods and topics and its complex analytical arguments, Undesirable Practices makes a valuable contribution to literature in African studies, contemporary advocacy discourse, women and gender studies, and critical postcolonial studies.
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    "I want to follow Kwaku" : The construction of self and home by unfree children in the Gold Coast, c. 1941 (2015)
    In:  56/3, 2015, S. 373-388
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    Language: English
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56/3, 2015, S. 373-388
    Note: Jessica V. Cammaert
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    Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 (2016)
    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
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    ISBN: 9780803286948 , 0803286945 , 9780803286962 , 0803286961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Expanding frontiers
    Parallel Title: Print version Cammaert, Jessica, 1984- Undesirable practices
    DDC: 305.409667
    Keywords: Women Social conditions ; Ghana ; Children Social conditions ; Ghana ; Women Health and hygiene ; Ghana ; Children Health and hygiene ; Ghana ; Human body Social aspects ; Ghana ; Ghana ; Women Health and hygiene ; Children Health and hygiene ; Human body Social aspects ; Children Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Children Health and hygiene ; Human body Social aspects ; Women Health and hygiene ; Women Social conditions ; Children Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; Africa ; West ; Children ; Health and hygiene ; Children ; Social conditions ; Human body ; Social aspects ; Women ; Health and hygiene ; Women ; Social conditions ; Ghana ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Die a natural death : responses to the questionnaire on "customs affecting the status of women in West Africa" ca. 1930 -- R.S. Rattray, anthropology, and the making of undesirable practices in northern Ghana -- Female circumcision as undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930-1933 -- Child slavery, pawning, and trafficking in late-colonial Bawku, 1941-1948 -- Put some clothes on or Nkrumah will get you! : anti-nudity in the Nkrumah era, 1958-1966 -- Orphaned children and unruly girls : youth and undesirability post-Nkrumah, 1965-1972 -- Conclusion: undesirable practices and social welfare in Africa : averting the male gaze
    Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record , Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014
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    Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 (2016)
    Lincoln, [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press
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    ISBN: 9780803286801 , 9780803286962
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (307 pages)
    Series Statement: Expanding frontiers
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cammaert, Jessica, 1984- Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972
    DDC: 305.409667
    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1972 ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Kind ; Women Social conditions ; Children Social conditions ; Women Health and hygiene ; Children Health and hygiene ; Human body Social aspects ; Politik ; Kolonialismus ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Ghana ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Ghana ; Kolonialismus ; Politik ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1930-1972
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