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. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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"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."
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"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
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During the last few months of 1929, thousands of African young men and women gathered on mission stations and school grounds in colonial central Kenya to perform a dance-song called the Muthirigu. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
premarital pregnancy cases, pregnancy compensation, pregnancy disputes, affiliation payments, affiliation debates, female circumcision controversy, affiliation suits, affiliation law, illegal pregnancy, second excisions, affiliation cases, female initiation, reproductive concerns, female genital cutting, female excision, maternity work, paternity support, schoolgirl pregnancies, mass excisions, old midwives, compensation suits, repeal bill, replacement bill, historical entanglement, circumcised girl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Affiliation Act, Njuri Ncheke, Mau Mau, African Courts, Colonial Office, World War, Affiliation Bill, National Assembly, Magistrate's Courts, House of Commons, Lady Grigg, Poor Law, Tom Mboya, Big Men, Central Province, Charity Tirindi, Daily Nation, Mary Holding, Monica Kanana, Naaman M'Mwirichia, Taifa Weekly, Caroline Kirote, East Africa, Gerald Casey, Local Native Councils New!
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During the last few months of 1929, thousands of African young men and women gathered on mission stations and school grounds in colonial central Kenya to perform a dance-song called the Muthirigu. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
premarital pregnancy cases, pregnancy compensation, pregnancy disputes, affiliation payments, affiliation debates, female circumcision controversy, affiliation suits, affiliation law, illegal pregnancy, second excisions, affiliation cases, female initiation, reproductive concerns, female genital cutting, female excision, maternity work, paternity support, schoolgirl pregnancies, mass excisions, old midwives, compensation suits, repeal bill, replacement bill, historical entanglement, circumcised girl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Affiliation Act, Njuri Ncheke, Mau Mau, African Courts, Colonial Office, World War, Affiliation Bill, National Assembly, Magistrate's Courts, House of Commons, Lady Grigg, Poor Law, Tom Mboya, Big Men, Central Province, Charity Tirindi, Daily Nation, Mary Holding, Monica Kanana, Naaman M'Mwirichia, Taifa Weekly, Caroline Kirote, East Africa, Gerald Casey, Local Native Councils New!
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- Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and class (Eastern African Studies ) by Bruce Berman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Population Dynamics of Kenya (Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Series) by Working Group on Kenya in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- African Encounters with Domesticity by Karen Tranberg Hansen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (African Expressive Cultures) by Karin Barber on page 207, and Back Matter
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- Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship by Kathleen Canning on page 37, and Back Matter
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