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Offers an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles in a context of dramatic social change. The author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change.

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"Jennifer Johnson-Hanks provocatively begins where other studies end. Rather than assuming a generic 'modernity' that inexplicably shapes pregnancy decisions, she probes deeply to find a complex tangle of lived realities that shape the maternity/education nexus among Beti women in Cameroon. A bold and beautifully realized meditation on schooling and education." - Alma Gottlieb, author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From"

Uncertain Honor Modern Motherhood in an African

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226401829, 978-0226401829
      ISBN10: 0226401820
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      Anthropology Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

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      Book Synopsis
      Offers an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles in a context of dramatic social change. The author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change.

      Trade Review
      "Jennifer Johnson-Hanks provocatively begins where other studies end. Rather than assuming a generic 'modernity' that inexplicably shapes pregnancy decisions, she probes deeply to find a complex tangle of lived realities that shape the maternity/education nexus among Beti women in Cameroon. A bold and beautifully realized meditation on schooling and education." - Alma Gottlieb, author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From"

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