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Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in Kenya

Lynn M. Thomas c2003 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520235403 (paper)
  • 9780520224506 (hardcover)
  • 9780520936645 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Maps (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • 1. IMPERIAL POPULATIONS AND "WOMEN'S AFFAIRS" (page 21)
  • 2. COLONIAL UPLIFT AND GIRL-MIDWIVES (page 52)
  • 3. MAU MAU AND THE GIRLS WHO "CIRCUMCISED THEMSELVES" (page 79)
  • 4. LATE COLONIAL CUSTOMS AND WAYWARD SCHOOLGIRLS (page 103)
  • 5. POSTCOLONIAL NATIONALISM AND "MODERN" SINGLE MOTHERS (page 135)
  • CONCLUSION (page 173)
  • Notes (page 187)
  • Bibliography (page 235)
  • Index (page 289)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PDR 29.4 (Dec. 2003): 748-749 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0098-7921%28200312%2929%3A4%3C748%3APOTWWR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
IJAHS 36.2 (2003): 443-445 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%282003%2936%3A2%3C443%3APOTWWR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
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