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In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become ""responsible"" mothers.

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Dealing with women in their everyday lives, elevating without romanticizing, Fadlalla's ethnography ranks with Janice Boddy's Wombs and Alien Spirits as the two best studies of Sudanese women written to date. - Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 9/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299223809, 978-0299223809
      ISBN10: 0299223809

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become ""responsible"" mothers.

      Trade Review
      Dealing with women in their everyday lives, elevating without romanticizing, Fadlalla's ethnography ranks with Janice Boddy's Wombs and Alien Spirits as the two best studies of Sudanese women written to date. - Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles

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