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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Critical Anthropology |
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Critical Anthropology
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| Contents |
Front cover ; Title page ; Colophone ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Tubal ligation; Prologue -- Motherhood in the midst of poverty and violence; Violence and social exclusion; Chapter One -- Introduction; Female sterilisation in Brazil; Political unease; A question of recognition; Fertility and intersubjectivity; A phenomenological perspective; Telling stories; Plan of work; Chapter Two -- The Fieldwork; Entering the field; Memories of an arrival; At home; The methods; Interviewing; Working with surveys; Observations at hospitals; Being a participant; My position in the field; A researcher |
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A friendExploitation?; An outsider; Chapter Three -- The Neighbourhood; An inhabited place; Living conditions; Men in control?; A feminine domain par excellence; The family; The larger world; The church; The school; Living on a tightrope; Chapter Four -- Fertility and History; Power over life; The Brazilian fertility decline; Changed living conditions; No public contraceptive services; Legalised sterilisation; Tubal ligation in Camaragibe; Local patterns of sterilisation; Methods of sterilisation; Sources of sterilisation; Understandings of sterilisation; Early sterilisation |
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Spacing between birthsSome ordinary stories; Simone; Luzinete; Maria José; The control of bodies; Medicalisation; Responsible behaviour; Chapter Five -- Fertility and Recognition; A need for recognition; Being a pé de chinelo; Low status lives; Being a consumer; Being a patient; The embodiment of change; Neide's house; The house and the self; Autoconstruction of bodies; Chapter Six -- Fertility and Home; Multiple concerns; Being a mother among mothers; Mutual recognition; Being a mother: A shared burden; A woman's responsibility; Jacione's concerns; Being married; Disunited couples |
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Carmen's predicamentBeing an active individual; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion; The future in the present; Matters of life and longing; Epilogue -- Kitchen stories; Notes ; Notes to prologue; Notes to chapter one; Notes to chapter two; Notes to chapter three; Notes to chapter four; Notes to chapter five; Notes to chapter six; Notes to chapter seven; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sterilization of women -- Brazil, Northeast
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Birth control -- Brazil, Northeast
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Birth control
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Sterilization of women
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Northeast Brazil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788763525725 |
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8763525720 |
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