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

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Author / Creator:	Thomas, Lynn M., author.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Women -- Kenya -- History. Female circumcision -- Kenya -- History. Women -- Kenya -- Social conditions. Sex role -- Kenya. Female circumcision. Sex role. Social conditions Women. Women -- Social conditions. Kenya -- Social conditions. Kenya. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129528

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ISBN:	9780520936645 0520936647 159734818X 9781597348188 1417525770 9781417525775 0520224507 9780520224506 0520235401 9780520235403
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-287) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 In English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance--and complex ramifications--of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power.
Other form:	Print version: Thomas, Lynn M. Politics of the womb. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520224507 0520235401

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