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African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies - Kenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies - Kenyan Women with Vaginal Fistulas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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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 "leaking black female bodies" are
constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal
health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of
developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment
delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews
with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the
heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most
profound gender-related health issue - an experience of shame,
taboo and abjection with severe implications for women's wellbeing,
health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book
shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist
understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and
knowledge.
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