Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 / Jessica Cammaert.
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TextSeries: Expanding frontiersPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780803286948
- 0803286945
- 9780803286962
- 0803286961
- Women -- Ghana -- Social conditions
- Children -- Ghana -- Social conditions
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ghana
- Children -- Health and hygiene -- Ghana
- Human body -- Social aspects -- Ghana
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- Africa -- West
- Children -- Health and hygiene
- Children -- Social conditions
- Human body -- Social aspects
- Women -- Health and hygiene
- Women -- Social conditions
- Ghana
- 305.409667 23
- HQ1816 .C36 2016eb
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014.
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.
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