Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
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The Moral Economy of Motherhood in the Colonial Period
The new ideals of what a good mother is are that it should be, that's the colonial viewpoint. The biological mother who should look after her own children. Er genital mutilation is also seen partly as a aquids practice. But interestingly, in the south over the country, where most midwives ar practised, and most midwives were from the southern part of the country. And am very much like e what thecleor er administrators analyzed. So that's the basis.
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