Childbearing in Contemporary Africa: Situating Local Realities in Structural Inequality

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dc.contributorHanson, Hollyen_US
dc.contributorHeller, Chaiaen_US
dc.contributor.advisorMorgan, Lynnen_US
dc.contributor.authorCressy, Allisonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T13:46:36Z
dc.date.available2011-02-16T13:46:36Z
dc.date.gradyear2008en_US
dc.date.issued2011-02-16
dc.date.submitted2008-05-08 11:59:20en_US
dc.description.abstractThe high rate of maternal mortality in Africa has attracted much attention in the form of research and interventions. The dominant perspective on childbearing in Africa focuses on local inequalities and the improvement of physiological health through biomedical intervention. In this study, I argue that the dominant perspective is too narrow, by using a Critical perspective in Medical Anthropology to show how local realities of childbirth reach beyond physiological health, and to tie local experiences of stratified reproduction to structural inequality on a global level.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAnthropologyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/595
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectchildbearingen_US
dc.subjectCritical Medical Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshChildbirthen_US
dc.titleChildbearing in Contemporary Africa: Situating Local Realities in Structural Inequalityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke Collegeen_US

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