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If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa

By Brooke Schwartz Bocast
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By Brooke Schwartz Bocast
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Winner of the Outstanding Book Award (Council on Anthropology and Education), the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora), and the Outstanding Book Award - Honorable Mention (Society of Professors of Education).

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa examines Kampala's university-based sexual economy wherein female students exchange sexual favors for money, grades, and luxury commodities. Th...

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Social SciencesAnthropology & ArchaeologySocio-Cultural AnthropologySocio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous