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"This history is ... the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."--Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Luise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1990.
Temas:
Prostitution > Kenya > Nairobi > History.
Women > Kenya > Social conditions.
Working class women > Kenya > Social conditions.
Femmes > Kenya > Conditions sociales.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Colonial influence
Prostitution
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions
Working class women > Social conditions
Kenya > Colonial influence.
Kenya > Social conditions.
Kenya > Conditions sociales.
Kenya
Kenya > Nairobi
Prostitution > History
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Currencies
  • Introduction: Prostitution in Comparative Perspective; or, Casual Sex and Casual Labor
  • Livestock, Labor, and Reproduction: Prostitution in Nairobi and the East African Protectorate, ca. 1900-1918
  • Prostitution and Housing in Nairobi, 1919-29
  • Malaya Prostitution, 1930-39
  • Prostitution, Production, and Accumulation: The Originsand Development of the Wazi-Wazi Form in Pumwani,1936-45
  • Constructing Classes: Gender, Housing, and the State in Kenya
  • Prostitution in Nairobi during World War II, 1939-45
  • Prostitution, Crime, and Politics in Nairobi, 1946-63
  • Women, Wage Labor, and the Limits of Colonial Control
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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