Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania
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Book Overview
In Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk, Denise Roth Allen persuasively argues that development interventions in the Third World often have unintended and unacknowledged consequences. Based on twenty-two months of fieldwork in the Shinyanga Region of west central Tanzania, this rich and engaging ethnography of women's fertility-related experiences highlights the processes by which a set of seemingly well-intentioned international maternal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472030272
ISBN13:9780472030279
Release Date:August 2004
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:303 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Compelling ethnographic account of maternity in Tanzania
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This scholarly account of the concept of maternal risk in a third world country is a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive health and development. It provides an insightful account of how "safe motherhood" campaigns promoted by international development agencies fail to take in account local perspectives.
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