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Undesirable Practices : Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972

Lincoln, NE : UNP - Nebraska, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (307 p)

Englisch

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Print version: Cammaert, Jessica : Undesirable Practices : Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972. - Lincoln, NE : UNP - Nebraska,c2016

978-0-8032-8680-1

978-0-8032-8680-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-8032-8696-2 ( : 49.55 (NL),74.32 (UA),49.55 (1U))

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305.40966700000001     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Women--Ghana--Social conditions

Women ; Ghana ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

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.