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Informationen zum Autor Lynn M. Thomas is Assistant Professor of History and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington! Seattle. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung By examining the political significance of reproductive controversies in 20th-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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Maps Introduction 1. Imperial Populations and "Women's Affairs" 2. Colonial Uplift and Girl-Midwives 3. Mau Mau and the Girls who "Circumcised Themselves" 4. Late Colonial Customs and Wayward Schoolgirls 5. Postcolonial Nationalism and "Modern" Single Mothers Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
