| Description |
284 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Situating reproduction, procreation, and motherhood within a cross-cultural context : an introduction / Pranee Liamputtong -- Immigrant women and fertility : gender under re-construction / Tatjana Alvadj -- Burmese women and unwanted pregnancy : "I thought my blood was stuck inside me" / Elizabeth Hoban -- Birth in Pakistan / Margaret Chesney -- Women, childbirth, and change in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Naomi M. McPherson -- The hospital as a birthing site : narratives of local women in Nigeria / Chimaraoke Otutubikey Izugbara & Joseph Kinuabeye Ukwayi -- Hard labour : minority women, nurses, and the childbirth experience / Denise L. Spitzer -- The experience of childbirth and hospital stay amongst Arabic-speaking immigrant women in Australia / Lina Nadia Abboud & Pranee Liamputtong -- Sensing vulnerability, seeking strength : Somali women and their experiences during pregnancy and birth in Melbourne / Paula Hernandez -- Motherhood as a script for nationhood / Jamileh Abu-Duhou -- Double identities : the lived experience of motherhood among Hmong immigrant women in Australia / Pranee Liamputtong & Denise Spitzer -- Shifting out the sweetness : migrant motherhood in New Zealand / Ruth De Souza -- Accessing marriage and motherhood : the experience of women with disability in rural Cambodia / Alexandra Gartrell |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human reproduction -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Motherhood -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Parturition -- ethnology.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Maternal Behavior -- ethnology.
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Pregnancy -- ethnology.
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| Author |
Liamputtong, Pranee, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2007007646 |
| ISBN |
9781600216060 hardcover |
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1600216064 hardcover |
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