Undesirable Practices : Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972 /

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cammaert, Jessica, 1984- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Human body > Social aspects.
Children > Social conditions.
Children > Health and hygiene.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Enfants > Ghāna > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Ghāna > Conditions sociales.
Human body > Social aspects > Ghana.
Children > Health and hygiene > Ghana.
Women > Health and hygiene > Ghana.
Children > Ghana > Social conditions.
Women > Ghana > Social conditions.
Ghana.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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