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The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi - Softcover

White, Luise

 
9780226895079: The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226895076 ISBN 13: 9780226895079
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."—Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read."—Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical Review

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Luise White is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota.

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This book is about the history of prostitution in a city in British colonial Africa. Nairobi, women saw prostitution as a reliable means of capital accumulation, not as a despicable fate or a temporary strategy. Indeed, whether a woman invested in urban real estate for herself or bought goats for her father did not seem to have been a personal or a cultural decision. The work of prostitutes was family labor.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226895076
ISBN 13 
9780226895079
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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