African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies Kenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas /

• Main Author: Gatwiri, Kathomi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human body-Social aspects.; Culture.; Gender.; Maternal and child health services.; Women.; Ethnology-Africa.; Gynecology .; Sociology of the Body.; Culture and Gender.; Maternal and Child Health.; Women's Studies.; African Culture.; Gynecology.

This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the "hidden disease" of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how "leak...