Jessica Cammaert

Undesirable Practices (eBook, PDF)

Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972

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Produktbeschreibung

Undesirable Practices 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, nudity, prostitution, and "illicit" adoption as well as the hesitation to impose severe punishments for the slave dealing of females, particularly female children. She examines the gendered power relations and colonial attitudes that targeted women and children spanning pre- and postcolonial periods, the early postindependence years, and post-Nkrumah policies. In particular, Cammaert examines the limits of the male colonial gaze and argues that the power lay not in the gaze itself but in the act of "looking away," a calculated aversion of attention intended to maintain the tribal community and retain control over the movement, sexuality, and labor of women and children. With its examination of broader time periods and topics and its complex analytical arguments, Undesirable Practices makes a valuable contribution to literature in African studies, contemporary advocacy discourse, women and gender studies, and critical postcolonial studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803286962
• Artikelnr.: 55972649

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on “Customs
Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa,” ca. 1930
2. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in
Northern Ghana
3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930–1933
4. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late-Colonial Bawku,
1941–1948
5. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the
Nkrumah Era, 1958–1966
6. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After
Nkrumah, 1965–1972
Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male Gaze
Notes
Bibliography
Index