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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815107003321

Autore

Fadlalla Amal Hassan

Titolo

Embodying honor : fertility, foreignness, and regeneration in eastern Sudan / / Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007

ISBN

0-299-22383-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 210 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.), 1 map ;

Collana

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Disciplina

306.874/309624

Soggetti

Fertility, Human - Social aspects - Sudan

Sex role - Sudan

Women - Sudan - Social conditions

Hadendowa (African people) - Sexual behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Weaving the Web of Regeneration -- 1 Famished Land: Gender, Identity, and Place -- 2 Historicizing Foreignness: Alterity, Disease, and Social Vulnerability -- 3 Performing Durarit: Constructing Gender through the Life Course -- 4 Gendered Placenta: The Paths to Proper Fertility and Responsible Motherhood -- 5 Precarious Trajectories: Managing  Reproductive Suffering -- 6 Whose Modernity? Negotiating Social Change -- Glossary of Tu-Badawie and Arabic Words -- Bibliography -- Index.