Fadlalla, Amal.

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.

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Fertility, Human-Social aspects-Sudan.
Sex role-Sudan.
Women-Sudan-Social conditions.
Hadendowa (African people)-Sexual behavior.


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