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Uncertain honor : modern motherhood in an African crisis

Author
Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer.
Title
Uncertain honor : modern motherhood in an African crisis / Jennifer Johnson-Hanks.
Format
Book
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description
xv, 301p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016187.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005016187-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005016187-d.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [ 275]-294) and index. Paperback.
Contents
  • Introduction : a social system in transformation
  • The making of honorable women
  • School in the social world
  • Learning honor in school
  • The secret politics of sex
  • Vital conjunctures
  • The horizons of honor.
Kinsey subjects
Women and education--Cameroon. Parenthood research--Female. Status of women--Cameroon. Contraception--Cameroon. Social conditions--Cameroon.
ISBN
0226401812 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226401812 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226401820 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226401829 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
186.2 J54 u5 2006
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute