Overview
- Provides new knowledge on Kenyan gender, health, and sexuality
- Offers new insights into gendered structures of power in Africa
- Proposes a balance between real-world narratives and theoretical explorations
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
Keywords
- Vaginal Fistulas
- African Womanhood
- Kenyan Women’s Health
- African Women's Sexuality
- Abjection of Black Bodies
- African Feminist Frameworks
- Incontinent Bodies
- Intersections of Women’s Oppression
- Obstetric Fistulas
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Obstetric Care in Kenya
- Leaking Bodies
- Child Marriages
- African Patriarchy
- Stigma of Vaginal Fistualas
- African Women's Reproductive Health
- African Womanhood under Colonisation
- Vaginal Fistulas and Structural Disadvantage
- Living with Vaginal Fistulas
- maternal and child health
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Authors and Affiliations
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School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Bilinga, Coolongata, Australia
Kathomi Gatwiri
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies
Book Subtitle: Kenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas
Authors: Kathomi Gatwiri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0565-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0564-1Published: 22 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4452-7Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0565-8Published: 13 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 210
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Culture and Gender, Maternal and Child Health, Women's Studies, African Culture, Gynecology