Running after pills : politics, gender, and contraception in colonial Zimbabwe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaler, Amy
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2003]
Series:	Social history of Africa.
Subjects:	Birth control > Zimbabwe > History. Birth control > Political aspects > Zimbabwe. Contraception > Political aspects > Zimbabwe. Contraception > Government policy > Zimbabwe. Sex role > Zimbzabwe. Human reproduction > Social aspects > Zimbabwe. Family policy > Zimbabwe. Family Planning Policy > Zimbabwe. Contraception > Zimbabwe. Public Policy > Zimbabwe.

Table of Contents:

The institutional history of family planning in Rhodesia, 1955 to 1980
Blood and boundaries : local knowledge of physiology and the body
Contraception as subversion : gender and power in marital relationships, 1960s and 1970s
Contraception as disrespect : fertility and power in the extended family in the twentieth century
Cutting down the nation : African fertility and African nationalism, 1950s to 1980
Conclusion : postindependence family planning and some thoughts about theory.