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Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique

Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique

Chapman, Rachel R.

Hardcover

Women's HealthAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 082651717X
ISBN13: 9780826517173
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Dec 15 2010
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Behind a thatched hut, a birthing woman bleeds to death only minutes from life-saving maternity care. Author Rachel Chapman begins Family Secrets with the deceptively simple question, Why don't women in Mozambique use existing prenatal and maternity services? then widens her analysis to include a whole universe of cultural, political, and economic forces. Fusing cultural anthropology with political economy, Chapman vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism and the increasing importance of the market have led to changing sexual and reproductive strategies for women.

Pregnant herself during her research, Chapman interviewed 83 women during pregnancy and postpartum. She discovered that the social relations surrounding traditional Shona practices, Christian faith healing, and Western biomedical treatments are as important to women's choices as the efficacy of the therapies.

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