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| Title: | Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production of Reproduction in Uganda, 1907-1925 |
| Author: | Summers, Carol |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | Summer |
| Pages: | 787-807 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Uganda United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | population policy colonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues History and Exploration Health and Nutrition Historical/Biographical Cultural Roles Health, Nutrition, and Medicine |
| Abstract: | British concern over the reproduction of the population and society of Uganda intensified from 1907 through 1924. The population appeared to be decreasing, which meant a labour shortage capable of threatening the prosperity and viability of the protectorate. The British colonizers and the African elite built a population crisis from a collection of beliefs and data. The perceived severity of this crisis - and the response it evoked - changed over the years. That response began as a straightforward medical attempt to treat the ill, notably those diagnosed with syphilis. After the World War, though, 'social hygiene' became an important therapeutic tool, and the administration worked to instill shame and to change the sexual behaviour of individuals. At the end of the war, the administration medical service and its missionary allies promoted motherhood through the Maternity Training School (MTS) in an effort to make more women reproduce and to make them better mothers. And in the 1920s, the administration and the missions attempted to shape African family structures and private life by employing midwives trained by the MTS in health and education initiatives. Notes, ref. |
