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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 | |
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.: | 9910823847103321 |
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