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Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Amal Hassa Fadlalla
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Description for Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Hardcover. In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become "responsible" mothers. Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 b/w photos & an eight page colour insert 4 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; GTB; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood through bearing and raising healthy children, especially sons. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. Amidst struggle for survival and expectations of heroic mothering, women face realities that challenge their ability to fulfill their prescribed roles. 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 - ... Read more
In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood through bearing and raising healthy children, especially sons. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. Amidst struggle for survival and expectations of heroic mothering, women face realities that challenge their ability to fulfill their prescribed roles. 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 - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299223809
SKU
V9780299223809
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About Amal Hassa Fadlalla
Amal Hassan Fadlalla is assistant professor of Afro-American studies, African studies, and women's studies at the University of Michigan.
Reviews for Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Dealing with women in their everyday lives, elevating without romanticizing, Fadlalla's ethnography ranks with Janice Boddy's Wombs and Alien Spirits as the two best studies of Sudanese women written to date. - Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles