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Politics of the Womb : Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
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Lynn Thomas
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August 20 2003
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University of California Press
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9780520936645
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August 20 2003
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10.1525/9780520936645
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. ix
Acknowledgments
pp. vii
Contents
pp. xiii
List Of Abbreviations
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 21
1. Imperial Populations And “Women’S Affairs”
pp. 52
2. Colonial Uplift And Girl-Midwives
pp. 79
3. Mau Mau And The Girls Who “Circumcised Themselves”
pp. 103
4. Late Colonial Customs And Wayward Schoolgirls
pp. 135
5. Postcolonial Nationalism And “Modern” Single Mothers
pp. 173
Conclusion
pp. 187
Notes
pp. 235
Bibliography
pp. 289
Index
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