List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Die a Natural Death: Responses to the Questionnaire on “Customs Affecting the Status of Women in West Africa,” ca. 1930
2. R. S. Rattray, Anthropology, and the Making of Undesirable Practices in Northern Ghana
3. Female Circumcision as Undesirable in the Northeast, ca. 1930–1933
4. Child Slavery, Pawning, and Trafficking in Late-Colonial Bawku, 1941–1948
5. Put Some Clothes On or Nkrumah Will Get You! Antinudity Campaigns in the Nkrumah Era, 1958–1966
6. Orphaned Children and Unruly Girls: Youth and Undesirability After Nkrumah, 1965–1972
Conclusion: Undesirable Practices in Africa: Averting the Male Gaze
Notes
Bibliography
Index