Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe

Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. Octavo in pale grey green illus wraps; ix, 298 p.: ill.; 24 cm; bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index. Fine ; as new. Paperback. ISBN: 0822317621

Contents: Cleanliness and "civilization": hygiene and colonialism in Southern Africa -- Education, domesticity, and bodily discipline -- Buckets, boxes, and "bonsella": precolonial exchange, the "Kaffir truck" trade, and African "needs" -- Manufacturing, the "African market," and the postwar boom -- The new mission: advertising and market research in Zimbabwe, 1945-1979 -- Bodies and things: toiletries and commodity culture in postwar Zimbabwe. Soap trade -- Zimbabwe -- History. Hygiene products -- Zimbabwe -- Marketing -- History. Rural health -- Zimbabwe -- History. Hygiene. Culturele aspecten. Economische aspecten. Body, commodity, text.