Politics of the Womb
Subtitle: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520224506
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; African studies; Ethical issues & debates; Women's studies; Social conditions; History; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Kenya; Africa - General; Women's Studies - General; History / General; Female circumcision; Women
First sentence: 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.