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Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
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Description for Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
Paperback. Offers an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles in a context of dramatic social change. The author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 figures, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 121 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In "Uncertain Honor", Jennifer Johnson-Hanks argues that this demographic fact has social causes by offering a rich case study of contraception, abortion, and informal adoption among educated, ethnic Beti women in southern Cameroon. Combining insights from demography and cultural anthropology, Johnson-Hanks argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change. Through itinerant school careers and manipulations of marriage, educated Beti women now manage their ... Read more
In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In "Uncertain Honor", Jennifer Johnson-Hanks argues that this demographic fact has social causes by offering a rich case study of contraception, abortion, and informal adoption among educated, ethnic Beti women in southern Cameroon. Combining insights from demography and cultural anthropology, Johnson-Hanks argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change. Through itinerant school careers and manipulations of marriage, educated Beti women now manage their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226401829
SKU
V9780226401829
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About Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks is assistant professor in the Department of Demography and an affiliate of the Department of Anthropology and the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
"Jennifer Johnson-Hanks provocatively begins where other studies end. Rather than assuming a generic 'modernity' that inexplicably shapes pregnancy decisions, she probes deeply to find a complex tangle of lived realities that shape the maternity/education nexus among Beti women in Cameroon. A bold and beautifully realized meditation on schooling and education." - Alma Gottlieb, author of The Afterlife Is Where We ... Read more