Politics of the womb women, reproduction, and the state in Kenya / [electronic resource] :
Lynn M. Thomas.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- xiii, 300 p. ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-287) and index.
Imperial populations and women's affairs -- Colonial uplift and girl-midwives -- Mau Mau and the girls who circumcised themselves -- Late colonial customs and wayward schoolgirls -- Postcolonial nationalism and modern single mothers.