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200 10$aAfrican Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies$b[electronic resource] $eKenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas /$fby Kathomi Gatwiri
205   $a1st ed. 2019.
210  1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (XVII, 210 p.) 
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a981-13-0564-1 
327   $aExploring African Feminisms: Context, Positioning, and Making the Personal Political -- Two: The Problem of Vaginal Fistulas: Dimensions and Trends -- African Women, Gender, Health, and Sexuality: Theoretical Considerations -- Vaginal Fistulas and Structural Disadvantage -- Rationalising Fistulas: A Cultural Influence and Response -- Flawed Bodies, Blackness, and Incontinence -- Recreating African Womanhood and Rewriting Our Stories: Bringing the Narratives to a Close -- References -- Index.
330   $aThis book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the ?hidden disease? of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how ?leaking black female bodies? are constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most profound gender-related health issue ? an experience of shame, taboo and abjection with severe implications for women?s wellbeing, health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and knowledge.
606   $aHuman body?Social aspects
606   $aCulture
606   $aGender
606   $aMaternal and child health services
606   $aWomen
606   $aEthnology?Africa
606   $aGynecology 
606   $aSociology of the Body$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22230
606   $aCulture and Gender$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411210
606   $aMaternal and Child Health$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H27025
606   $aWomen's Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35040
606   $aAfrican Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411030
606   $aGynecology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H26006
615  0$aHuman body?Social aspects.
615  0$aCulture.
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615  0$aMaternal and child health services.
615  0$aWomen.
615  0$aEthnology?Africa.
615  0$aGynecology .
615 14$aSociology of the Body.
615 24$aCulture and Gender.
615 24$aMaternal and Child Health.
615 24$aWomen's Studies.
615 24$aAfrican Culture.
615 24$aGynecology.
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