Cortney Hughes Rinker

Islam, Development, and Urban Women's Reproductive Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography examines the relationship between development policies, women's reproductive practices, and understandings of Islam in Morocco. It shows how female patients at reproductive health clinics appropriate medical practices aimed at crafting modern citizens to create new religious identities, novel ideas of motherhood, and neoliberal citizenship based on Islamic beliefs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415818872
• ISBN-10: 0415818877
• Artikelnr.: 36541742

Autorenporträt

Cortney Hughes Rinker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Introduction: Building Modern Morocco One Woman at a Time. Part I
1. "Dragging" Reproduction to the Center: Development and Reproductive
Policies in Morocco 2. Popular Culture and Textbooks: Creating Modern
Reproductive Subjects and Mothers Through Images and Text 3. Spaces of
Intervention: The Sights and Sounds of Reproductive Health Part II 4.
Contraception and Living a Quality Islamic Life 5. "I Can't, God Knows It":
Pregnancy Tests and Islamic Rationality 6. Raising the Next Generation of
Moroccan Citizens to Have "Good Hearts". Conclusion: The Body, Uncertainty,
and the Future of Morocco.