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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa


Lynn M. Thomas. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.
Lynn M. Thomas presents an interpretation of the colonial history of the Meru of central Kenya as an ongoing struggle among British officials, African male members of the Local Native Council, and senior women (primarily older midwives) to control the sexuality and fertility of young women. The book is brilliantly conceived, organized, and argued. The sophistication of its overall conception and its thoughtful engagement with contemporary literature suggest a work that has been refined over a number of years. . . .
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