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...

Table of Contents:

• Exploring African Feminisms: Context, Positioning, and Making the Personal Political
• Two: The Problem of Vaginal Fistulas: Dimensions and Trends
• African Women, Gender, Health, and Sexuality: Theoretical Considerations
• Vaginal Fistulas and Structural Disadvantage
• Rationalising Fistulas: A Cultural Influence and Response
• Flawed Bodies, Blackness, and Incontinence
• Recreating African Womanhood and Rewriting Our Stories: Bringing the Narratives to a Close
• References
• Index.