Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 / / Jessica Cammaert
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| Autore: |
Cammaert Jessica <1984->
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| Titolo: |
Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 / / Jessica Cammaert
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.409667 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Ghana - Social conditions |
| Children - Ghana - Social conditions | |
| Women - Health and hygiene - Ghana | |
| Children - Health and hygiene - Ghana | |
| Human body - Social aspects - Ghana | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Undesirable practices |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-8694-5 |
| 0-8032-8696-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465784903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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