Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Fadlalla, Amal Hassan.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2007.

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Details

Description

xiii, 210 pages, [8] of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Even as the effects of modernity and development, global inequities, and exclusionary government policies challenge traditional ways of life in eastern Sudan and throughout many parts of Africa, reproductive traumas - infertility, miscarriage, children's illnesses, and mortality - disrupt women's reproductive health and impede their efforts to achieve the status that comes with fertility and motherhood." "In Embodying Honor Amal Hassan Fadlalla finds that the female body is the locus of anxieties about foreign dangers and diseases, threats perceived to be disruptive to morality, feminine identities, and social well-being. As a "northern Sudanese" viewed as an outsider in this region of her native country, Fadlalla presents an intimate portrait and thorough analysis that offers commentary on the very notion of what constitutes the "foreign." Fadlalla shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become "responsible" mothers and valued members of their communities. Her historically grounded ethnography delves into women's reproductive histories, personal narratives, and ritual logics to reveal the ways in which women challenge cultural understandings of gender, honor, and reproduction."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Uniform Title

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Subject

• Fertility, Human > Social aspects > Sudan
• Sex role > Sudan
• Women > Sudan > Social conditions
• Hadendowa (African people) > Sexual behavior
• Fertility, Human > Social aspects
• Sex role
• Women > Social conditions
• Frau Motiv
• Frau
• Fremdheit
• Hadendoa
• Sexualität
• Fertilität
• Geschlechterrolle
• Fertility, Human > Social aspects > Sudan
• Sex role > Sudan
• Women > Sudan > Social conditions
• Hadendowa (African people) > Sexual behavior
• Fruktsamhet > sociala aspekter > Sudan
• Könsroller > Sudan
• Kvinnor > sociala förhållanden > Sudan
• Sudan
• Sudan > Ost

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Introduction : weaving the web of regeneration -- Famished land : gender, identity, and place -- 2. Historicizing foreignness : alterity, disease, and social vulnerability -- Performing durarit : constructing gender through the life course -- Gendered placenta : the paths to proper fertility and responsible motherhood -- Precarious trajectories : managing reproductive suffering -- Whose modernity? Negotiating social change.

ISBN

• 0299223809
• 9780299223809
• 0299223841
• 9780299223847

LCCN

• 2007011785
• 99817932730

OCLC

• ocn125400234
• 125400234
• SCSB-1449437

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library