Undesirable Practices

Klappentext Jessica Cammaert is an instructor in African history at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Zusammenfassung Examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of "imperial feminism" and British colonial interventions in "undesirable" cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision! prostitution! and "illicit" adoption! as well as the hesitation to impose punishments for the slave dealing of females.

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Jessica Cammaert is an instructor in African history at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Klappentext

Jessica Cammaert is an instructor in African history at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Zusammenfassung
Examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of "imperial feminism" and British colonial interventions in "undesirable" cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, prostitution, and "illicit" adoption, as well as the hesitation to impose punishments for the slave dealing of females.

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on “Customs Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa,” ca. 19302. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in Northern Ghana3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930–19334. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late-Colonial Bawku, 1941–19485. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the Nkrumah Era, 1958–19666. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After Nkrumah, 1965–1972Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male GazeNotesBibliographyIndex