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

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Expanding frontiers Expanding frontiers. 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! : 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 Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Women -- Ghana -- Social conditions Children -- Ghana -- Social conditions Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ghana Children -- Health and hygiene -- Ghana Human body -- Social aspects -- Ghana SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Africa -- West. Children -- Health and hygiene Children -- Social conditions Human body -- Social aspects Women -- Health and hygiene Women -- Social conditions Ghana Form Electronic book ISBN 9780803286948 0803286945 9780803286962 0803286961

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