Lynn Thomas
Associate Professor: Africa; Cultural and Social; Women and Gender
lynnmt@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1997.
Selected Bibliography
Co-edited volume including co-authored introduction and chapter one with Modern Girl research group (Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong, and Tani E. Barlow) and individually-authored chapter four, The Modern Girl Around the World (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2008)
"Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History." In Stephen Miescher, Catherine Cole, and Takyiwaa Manuh, eds., Africa After Gender? (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 48-62.
"The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa." Journal of African History 47, 3 (2006): 461-90.
"Schoolgirl Pregnancies, Letter-Writing, and 'Modern' Persons in Late Colonial East Africa." In Karin Barber, ed., Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 180-207.
Co-authored article with Modern Girl research group (Tani E. Barlow, Madeleine Y. Dong, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn M. Thomas, Alys E. Weinbaum), “The Modern Girl around the World,” Gender and History 17, 2 (August 2005): 245-294.
Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
(Berkeley: University of California, 2003). Runner-up for the 2005 Aidoo-Synder Book Prize. East African edition published in 2005 by Fountain Press in Kampala, Uganda.
“Debating the Impact of Female Excision on Childbirth in Colonial Kenya.” In Caroline Bledsoe, ed., Discovering Normality in Health and the Reproductive Body. Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, March 9-10, 2001. PAS Working Papers No. 11. ( Evanston, IL: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, in 2002), 95-106.
"'The Politics of the Womb': Kenyan Debates over the Affiliation
Act." Africa Today 47 (Summer/Autumn 2000): 151-76
"'Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)': Lessons from Colonial Campaigns
to Ban Excision in Meru, Kenya." In Female "Circumcision":
Culture, Controversy, and Change, Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund,
eds.,(Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2000), 129-150.
"Imperial Concerns and 'Women's Affairs': State Efforts to Regulate
Clitoridectomy and Eradicate Abortion in Meru, Kenya, c. 1910-1950."
Journal of African History 39 (1998): 121-45.
"'Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)': The Gender and Generational
Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya," Gender
and History 8 (1996), 338-63. Reprinted in Gendered Colonialisms
in African History, Nancy Rose Hunt, Tessie P. Liu, and Jean Quataert,
eds.(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), 16-41.
Editor, A Kenyan Woman's Guide to the Law (Nairobi, 1990).
Research in Progress
Chapter manuscript, "Skin Lighteners in South Africa: Transnational Commodities and Technologies of the Self," Colorism, edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (under review)
Co-edited volume manuscript including co-authored introduction with Jennifer Cole and individually-authored chapter four, Love in Africa (under review)
Book project, "The Modern Girl in Interwar South Africa"
Book project, "A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners"
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