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