Description
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.
About the Author
Jessica Cammaert is an instructor in African history at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
Reviews
"Cammaert's book is well-written and, most importantly, sheds light on the so-called undesirable practices, revealing more than policy-oriented studies alone. . . . This book gives a voice to a localized group of Africans in Northeastern Ghana and focuses on specific issues the inhabitants had to deal with during the colonial and early post-colonial periods. This is an important contribution to the studies related to female genital mutilation, nudity, human trafficking, and prostitution."-Aliou Ly, African Studies Review
"What a powerful project! . . . This volume reframes and complicates the arguments and practices in new and significant ways. . . . [This is] a unique and welcome contribution to the literature."-Beth Blue Swadener, coeditor of Children's Rights and Education: International Perspectives
"As a cultural anthropologist, I find [Cammaert's] work especially useful for providing a deeper (in time) understanding of how African culture and gender socialization has been reshaped over the decades."-Angela R. Bratton, associate professor of anthropology at Georgia Regents University and the author of An Anthropological Study of Factors Affecting the Construction of Sexuality in Ghana
Book Information
ISBN 9780803286801
Author Jessica Cammaert
Format Hardback
Page Count 306
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press