Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique - Softcover

Chapman, Rachel R.

 
9780826517180: Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826517188 ISBN 13: 9780826517180
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Press behalf of Vanderbilt Univ. P, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Behind a thatched hut, a birthing woman bleeds to death only minutes from "life-saving" maternity care. Author Rachel Chapman begins Family Secrets with the deceptively simple question, "Why don't women in Mozambique use existing prenatal and maternity services?" then widens her analysis to include a whole universe of cultural, political, and economic forces. Fusing cultural anthropology with political economy, Chapman vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism and the increasing importance of the market have led to changing sexual and reproductive strategies for women.

Pregnant herself during her research, Chapman interviewed 83 women during pregnancy and postpartum. She discovered that the social relations surrounding traditional Shona practices, Christian faith healing, and Western biomedical treatments are as important to women's choices as the efficacy of the therapies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rachel Chapman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Besides conducting her ethnographic research in Mozambique, she has also participated in the policy arena, serving as Assistant to the Director of Health Education in Manica Province from 1993 to 1995, and even naming the national brand of condoms in a nationwide contest ("Jeito," which means "knack," as in fixing cars or being a good lover).

Aus dem Klappentext

A vivid ethnography of women's risks in pregnancy and birth in a Mozambique impoverished by neoliberalism

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago Press behalf of Vanderbilt Univ. P
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826517188
ISBN 13 
9780826517180
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
302
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