Alison Heller

Fistula Politics

Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger

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Produktbeschreibung

Obstetric fistula is a birth injury caused by prolonged obstructed labour that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. In Western humanitarian and media narratives, fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing. Alison Heller illustrates these popular narratives only serve the interests of humanitarian organisations, the media, and local clinics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800373
• ISBN-10: 1978800371
• Artikelnr.: 51983263

Autorenporträt

Heller, Alison

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
1          Chapter 1: Incontinence and Inequalities  
44                    Part I   Living Incontinence
45        Laraba’s Story
53        Chapter 2: Fistula Stigma
96        Chapter 3: Liminal Wives
143                  Part II  Clinical Encounters
144      Six Beds, Sixty Minutes
153      Chapter 4: The “Worst Place to be a Mother”
193      Chapter 5: The Indeterminable Wait
234                  Part III            The Marketplace of Victimhood
235      Arantut’s Story
241      Chapter 6: Superlative Sufferers
271      Chapter 7: Costs and Consequences
299      Chapter 8: The Threshold of Continence
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes  
Bibliography                                                                                      
    
Index