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Autore |
Cammaert Jessica <1984-> |
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Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 / / Jessica Cammaert |
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Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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0-8032-8694-5 |
0-8032-8696-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Ghana - Social conditions |
Children - Ghana - Social conditions |
Women - Health and hygiene - Ghana |
Children - Health and hygiene - Ghana |
Human body - Social aspects - Ghana |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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