Embodying Honor : Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series .
- Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Weaving the Web of Regeneration -- 1 Famished Land: Gender, Identity, and Place -- 2 Historicizing Foreignness: Alterity, Disease, and Social Vulnerability -- 3 Performing Durarit: Constructing Gender through the Life Course -- 4 Gendered Placenta: The Paths to Proper Fertility and Responsible Motherhood -- 5 Precarious Trajectories: Managing Reproductive Suffering -- 6 Whose Modernity? Negotiating Social Change -- Glossary of Tu-Badawie and Arabic Words -- Bibliography -- Index.