02870nam 2200697 450 991046578490332120200520144314.00-8032-8694-50-8032-8696-1(CKB)3710000000718919(EBL)4532468(OCoLC)951222663(SSID)ssj0001674139(PQKBManifestationID)16472909(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674139(PQKBWorkID)13772333(PQKB)10397053(MiAaPQ)EBC4532468(OCoLC)950613773(MdBmJHUP)muse50937(Au-PeEL)EBL4532468(CaPaEBR)ebr11213912(CaONFJC)MIL925341(EXLCZ)99371000000071891920160619h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUndesirable practices women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 /Jessica CammaertLincoln, [Nebraska] ;London, [England] :University of Nebraska Press,2016.©20161 online resource (307 p.)Expanding FrontiersOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014.0-8032-8680-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Expanding frontiers.WomenGhanaSocial conditionsChildrenGhanaSocial conditionsWomenHealth and hygieneGhanaChildrenHealth and hygieneGhanaHuman bodySocial aspectsGhanaElectronic books.WomenSocial conditions.ChildrenSocial conditions.WomenHealth and hygieneChildrenHealth and hygieneHuman bodySocial aspects305.409667Cammaert Jessica1984-859305MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465784903321Undesirable practices1917848UNINA$45.3805/13/2017Dis