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UNINA9910815107003321 |
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Autore |
Fadlalla Amal Hassan |
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Titolo |
Embodying honor : fertility, foreignness, and regeneration in eastern Sudan / / Amal Hassan Fadlalla |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 210 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.), 1 map ; |
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Collana |
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Women in Africa and the diaspora |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fertility, Human - Social aspects - Sudan |
Sex role - Sudan |
Women - Sudan - Social conditions |
Hadendowa (African people) - Sexual behavior |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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