African Birth
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African Birth
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Author : Beverley Chalmers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
African Birth written by Beverley Chalmers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Medical categories.
African American Midwifery In The South
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Author : Gertrude Jacinta FRASER
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
African American Midwifery In The South written by Gertrude Jacinta FRASER and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them. In the writings and programs produced by these physicians and public health officials, Fraser finds a universe of ideas about race, gender, the relationship of medicine to society, and the status of the South in the national political and social economies. Fraser also studies this experience through dialogues of memory. She interviews members of a rural Virginia African American community that included not just retired midwives and their descendants, but anyone who lived through this transformation in medical care--especially the women who gave birth at home attended by a midwife. She compares these narrations to those in contemporary medical journals and public health materials, discovering contradictions and ambivalence: was the midwife a figure of shame or pride? How did one distance oneself from what was now considered superstitious or backward and at the same time acknowledge and show pride in the former unquestioned authority of these beliefs and practices? In an important contribution to African American studies and anthropology, African American Midwifery in the South brings new voices to the discourse on the hidden world of midwives and birthing.
Just Keep Breathing
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Author : Sandra Dodson
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2008
Just Keep Breathing written by Sandra Dodson and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Childbirth categories.
Stunningly diverse and predominantly literary, this collection of birth stories explores one of the most commonplace yet profound of human experiences. By turns harrowing, hilarious, shocking, brave, and deeply poignant, these 28 accounts include not only the remarkable stories of women, including a rural midwife, a Rwandan refugee and a surrogate mother, but also contributions by men, who write movingly from the margins.
A Colonial Lexicon
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Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999-11-15
A Colonial Lexicon written by Nancy Rose Hunt and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-15 with Social Science categories.
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu’s Zaire. Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote British Baptist mission struggling to survive under the successive regimes of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, the hyper-hygienic, pronatalist Belgian Congo, and Mobutu’s Zaire. After exploring the roots of social reproduction in rituals of manhood, she shows how the arrival of the fast and modern ushered in novel productions of gender, seen equally in the forced labor of road construction and the medicalization of childbirth. Hunt focuses on a specifically interwar modernity, where the speed of airplanes and bicycles correlated with a new, mobile medicine aimed at curbing epidemics and enumerating colonial subjects. Fascinating stories about imperial masculinities, Christmas rituals, evangelical humor, colonial terror, and European cannibalism demonstrate that everyday life in the mission, on plantations, and under a strongly Catholic colonial state was never quite what it seemed. In a world where everyone was living in translation, privileged access to new objects and technologies allowed a class of “colonial middle figures”—particularly teachers, nurses, and midwives—to mediate the evolving hybridity of Congolese society. Successfully blurring conventional distinctions between precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial situations, Hunt moves on to discuss the unexpected presence of colonial fragments in the vibrant world of today’s postcolonial Africa. With its close attention to semiotics as well as sociology, A Colonial Lexiconwill interest specialists in anthropology, African history, obstetrics and gynecology, medical history, religion, and women’s and cultural studies.
Privileges Of Birth
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Author : Jennifer J. M. Rogerson
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-11-04
Privileges Of Birth written by Jennifer J. M. Rogerson and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with Health & Fitness categories.
Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors of society, and there is deep division between what the privileged can afford compared with the rest of the population. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author situates the argument in the context of a growing literature on care in anthropological and feminist scholarship, offering a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.
African Best Baby Names
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Author : Emmanuel Anene
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011
African Best Baby Names written by Emmanuel Anene and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Education categories.
"This book brings all the cultures and languages of the continent of Africa under a common roof and draws most popular and meaningful African names"--Page 4 of cover.
Born For Life
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Author : Julie Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-20
Born For Life written by Julie Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-20 with categories.
Nothing could prepare Julie for the experience of living and working in the heart of Africa. This memoir takes you on Julie's journey to Kalene Mission Hospital in Zambia, where she worked as a midwife caring for African women and their babies. It is a story of joy and heartbreak, of courage and perseverance and an extraordinary adventure.
Race Maternity And The Politics Of Birth Control In South Africa 1910 39
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Author : S. Klausen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-11-12
Race Maternity And The Politics Of Birth Control In South Africa 1910 39 written by S. Klausen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-12 with Political Science categories.
Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945. It examines the nature and achievements of the South African birth-control movement in pre-apartheid South Africa, including the establishment of voluntary birth-control organizations in urban centres, the national birth-control coalition, and the clinic practices of the country's first birth-control clinics. The book spotlights important actors such as the birth controllers themselves, the women of all 'races' who utilized the clinics' services and the Department of Public Health, placing these within an international as well as national context.
Slavery And The Birth Of An African City
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Author : Kristin Mann
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-26
Slavery And The Birth Of An African City written by Kristin Mann and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-26 with History categories.
As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.
The Birth Of African American Culture
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Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 1992-07-01
The Birth Of African American Culture written by Sidney Wilfred Mintz and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with Social Science categories.
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.