The comforts of home : prostitution in colonial Nairobi /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1990.
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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.