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Countless blessings : a history of childbirth and reproduction in the Sahel /
How do women in Hausa-speaking Niger think about pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to answer this question to understand how childbirth has been experienced in the history of the African Sahel, a place that has the world's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Environment, seduction, and fertility
- Tensions in the wake of conquest : gender and reproduction after abolition
- Personhood, socialization, and shame
- Colonial accounting
- Perils of pregnancy and childbirth
- Producing healthy babies and healthy laborers
- Feminists, Islamists, and demographers
- Let's talk about bastards
- Contemporary sexuality and childbirth
- Conclusion: Traveling companions and entrustments in contemporary Niger.