Frances S. Hasso

Buried in the Red Dirt

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Produktbeschreibung

"Vena Winifred Ellen Rogers, a British nurse, is especially prominent in Palestine Department of Health records given the length of her service as a Matron and Superintendent of Midwifery for the Jerusalem District, which included Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Bireh and their villages. Government and non-Jewish "government-aided" maternity and infant welfare centers in the Jerusalem District were accountable to Rogers, who in turn answered to the British Senior Medical Officer (SMO)"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513545
• ISBN-10: 1316513548
• Artikelnr.: 62048485

Autorenporträt

Frances S. Hasso is a Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Department of History and Department of Sociology at Duke University. She is the author of Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (2005) and Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East (2011), and co-editor of Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (2016). She has been awarded multiple fellowships, including from the National Humanities Center, ACOR - the American Center of Research (Amman), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Center, and the Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies. She is an Editor Emerita of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Buried in the red dirt': Historiography and history of
missing Palestinian bodies; 1. 'We are far more advanced': The politics of
ill and healthy babies in colonial Palestine; 2. 'Making the country pay
for itself': Health, hunger, and midwives; 3. 'Children are the treasure
and property of the nation': Demography, eugenics, and mothercraft; 4.
'Technically illegal': Birth control in religious, colonial and state legal
traditions; 5. 'I did not want children': Birth control in discourse and
practice; 6. 'The art of death in life': Palestinian futurism and
reproduction after 1948; Bibliography.