Fistula Politics

Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger

Alison Heller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0036-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Obstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media narratives, fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. In Fistula Politics, Alison Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics.

Alison Heller is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	25 color and B-W photos
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9788-0036-3 / 1978800363
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0036-6 / 9781978800366
Zustand	Neuware