Politics of the womb : women, reproduction, and the state in Kenya / Lynn M. Thomas.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.

xiii, 300 pages ; 24 cm

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.