TY - BOOK AU - Thomas, Lynn M. TI - Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in Keny a SN - 0520224507 (Cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 305.4/096762 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Women KW - Kenya KW - History KW - Female circumcision KW - Social conditions KW - Sex role KW - Kenya N1 - 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 c olonial customs and wayward schoolgirls -- Postcolonial nationalism and modern single mothers ER -