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Veröffentlichung:	Juni 2018
Genre:	Soziologie
	African Culture / Anthropology / B / Cultural Studies / Culture / Culture and Gender / Ethnology—Africa / Gender / Gender and Culture / Gender studies# women & girls / Gynaecology & obstetrics / Gynecology / Human body—Social aspects / Maternal and Child Health / Maternal and child health services / Materno-fetal medicine / Personal & public health / Social Sciences / Sociology of the Body / Women / Women's Studies
ISBN:	9789811305641
EAN-Code:	9789811305641
Verlag:	Springer Nature EN
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 235 mm / B 155 mm / D
Gewicht:	512 gr
Seiten:	210
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Inhalt:

This 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.