(Hardback)

Lifting the Veil examines child rape in Ghana within the framework of rape culture. It adopts a holistic approach that combines the perspectives of victims and perpetrators and draws attention to poverty as central to a culture of irresponsibility among segments of the male population who engage in child rape.

(Hardback)

This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant womens care work.