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The comforts of home: prostitution in colonial Nairobi

Luise White c1990 © University of Chicago Press
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  • 9780226895000 (ebook)
  • 9780226895062 (hardcover)
  • 9780226895079 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Maps (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • A Note on Currencies (page xiii)
  • 1 Introduction: Prostitution in Comparative Perspective; or, Casual Sex and Casual Labor (page 1)
  • 2 Livestock, Labor, and Reproduction: Prostitution in Nairobi and the East African Protectorate, ca. 1900-1918 (page 29)
  • 3 Prostitution and Housing in Nairobi, 1919-29 (page 51)
  • 4 Malaya Prostitution, 1930-39 (page 79)
  • 5 Prostitution, Production, and Accumulation: The Origins and Development of the Wazi-Wazi Form in Pumwani, 1936-45 (page 103)
  • 6 Constructing Classes: Gender, Housing, and the State in Kenya (page 126)
  • 7 Prostitution in Nairobi during World War II, 1939-45 (page 147)
  • 8 Prostitution, Crime, and Politics in Nairobi, 1946-63 (page 185)
  • 9 Women, Wage Labor, and the Limits of Colonial Control (page 221)
  • Notes (page 229)
  • References (page 267)
  • Index (page 279)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JSAS 21.2 (1995): 323-332 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7070%28199506%2921%3A2%3C323%3AWMAMAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
CJAS 28.2 (1994): 379-381 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281994%2928%3A2%3C379%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
AE 20.4 (1993): 883-884 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199311%2920%3A4%3C883%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
AANTH 95.1 (1993): 233-234 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199303%292%3A95%3A1%3C233%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
AFSR 35.3 (1992): 134-136 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28199212%2935%3A3%3C134%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
AHR 97.4 (1992): 1259-1260 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199210%2997%3A4%3C1259%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
AAF 91.364 (1992): 475-476 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9909%28199207%2991%3A364%3C475%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
JIH 23.1 (1992): 231-232 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199222%2923%3A1%3C231%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
BSOAS 55.3 (1992): 617-619 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281992%2955%3A3%3C617%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
IJAHS 24.3 (1991): 678-679 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281991%2924%3A3%3C678%3ATCOHPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
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