| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages, [8] of plates) : illustrations |
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Women in Africa and the diaspora |
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Women in Africa and the diaspora.
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| Contents |
Introduction : weaving the web of regeneration -- Famished land : gender, identity, and place -- 2. Historicizing foreignness : alterity, disease, and social vulnerability -- Performing durarit : constructing gender through the life course -- Gendered placenta : the paths to proper fertility and responsible motherhood -- Precarious trajectories : managing reproductive suffering -- Whose modernity? Negotiating social change |
| Summary |
"Even as the effects of modernity and development, global inequities, and exclusionary government policies challenge traditional ways of life in eastern Sudan and throughout many parts of Africa, reproductive traumas - infertility, miscarriage, children's illnesses, and mortality - disrupt women's reproductive health and impede their efforts to achieve the status that comes with fertility and motherhood." "In Embodying Honor Amal Hassan Fadlalla finds that the female body is the locus of anxieties about foreign dangers and diseases, threats perceived to be disruptive to morality, feminine identities, and social well-being. As a "northern Sudanese" viewed as an outsider in this region of her native country, Fadlalla presents an intimate portrait and thorough analysis that offers commentary on the very notion of what constitutes the "foreign." Fadlalla shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become "responsible" mothers and valued members of their communities. Her historically grounded ethnography delves into women's reproductive histories, personal narratives, and ritual logics to reveal the ways in which women challenge cultural understandings of gender, honor, and reproduction."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Sudan
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Sex role -- Sudan
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Women -- Sudan -- Social conditions
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Hadendowa (African people) -- Sexual behavior
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
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Sex role
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Women -- Social conditions
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Fertilität
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Fremdheit
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Geschlechterrolle
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Frau
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Fruktsamhet -- sociala aspekter -- Sudan.
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Könsroller -- Sudan.
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Kvinnor -- sociala förhållanden -- Sudan.
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Sudan
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Sudan -- Ost
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007011785 |
| ISBN |
9780299223830 |
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0299223833 |
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