Authors: Lynn M. Thomas
ISBN-13: 9780520235403, ISBN-10: 0520235401
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Lynn M. Thomas is Assistant Professor of History and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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In Thomas's skilled hands, and in her unabashed love of story-telling, intimate events in Kenya help us think more clearly and more critically about Africa in the twentieth century. The politics of the womb are at the core of the colonial experience and of colonial politics. . .. Africans struggled amongst themselves over the regulation of reproduction, and these layers of intimate strife, and the policies and protests emanating from London and mission hospitals and African homesteads, give us something we haven't had before a gendered and transnational colonial history."Luise White, author of Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Acknowledgments | ||
List of Abbreviations | ||
Maps | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Imperial Populations and "Women's Affairs" | 21 |
2 | Colonial Uplift and Girl-Midwives | 52 |
3 | Mau Mau and the Girls Who "Circumcised Themselves" | 79 |
4 | Late Colonial Customs and Wayward Schoolgirls | 103 |
5 | Postcolonial Nationalism and "Modern" Single Mothers | 135 |
Conclusion | 173 | |
Notes | 187 | |
Bibliography | 235 | |
Index | 289 |