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Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972
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- Creator
- Jessica Cammaert
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- xv, 288 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0803286945, 0803286961, 0803286953, 9780803286948, 9780803286955, 0803286805, 9780803286801, 9780803286962
- OCLC
- ocn919202257, ocn951222663, ocn950613773
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) 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! : antinudity in the Nkrumah era, 1958-1966 -- Orphaned children and unruly girls : youth and undesirability after Nkrumah, 1965-1972 -- Conclusion: undesirable practices and social welfare in Africa : averting the male gaze