Undesirable practices : women, children, and the politics of the body in northern Ghana, 1930-1972 / Jessica Cammaert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cammaert, Jessica, 1984- author.

Series:

Expanding frontiers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Ghana--Social conditions.

Children--Ghana--Social conditions.

Women--Health and hygiene--Ghana.

Children--Health and hygiene--Ghana.

Human body--Social aspects--Ghana.

Children--Health and hygiene.

Children--Social conditions.

Human body--Social aspects.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women--Social conditions.

Children.

Social conditions.

Women.

Ghana.

Physical Description:

xv, 288 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.

ISBN:

9780803286801

0803286805

OCLC:

919202257