The comforts of home [electronic resource] : prostitution in colonial Nairobi / Luise White.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 285 p.) : mapsISBN:- 9780226895000 (electronic bk.)
- 0226895009 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226895062 (alk. paper)
- 0226895068 (alk. paper)
- Prostitution -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- History
- Women -- Kenya -- Social conditions
- Working class women -- Kenya -- Social conditions
- Kenya -- Colonial influence
- Kenya -- Social conditions
- Prostitution
- Women
- Working class women
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality
- SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction
- Prostitution History
- Kenya
- 306.74/2/0967625 20
- HQ260.5.N35 W45 1990eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currencies -- Introduction: Prostitution in Comparative Perspective; or, Casual Sex and Casual Labor -- Livestock, Labor, and Reproduction: Prostitution in Nairobi and the East African Protectorate, ca. 1900-1918 -- Prostitution and Housing in Nairobi, 1919-29 -- Malaya Prostitution, 1930-39 -- Prostitution, Production, and Accumulation: The Originsand Development of the Wazi-Wazi Form in Pumwani,1936-45 -- Constructing Classes: Gender, Housing, and theState in Kenya -- Prostitution in Nairobi during World War II, 1939-45 -- Prostitution, Crime, and Politics in Nairobi, 1946-63 -- Women, Wage Labor, and the Limits of Colonial Control -- Notes -- References -- Index.
& Quot;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 R.
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