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Islam, Development, and Urban Women's Reproductive Practices

Author : Cortney Hughes Rinker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136683593
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Development, and Urban Women's Reproductive Practices written by Cortney Hughes Rinker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic reforms in the preceding decades ultimately did not address social issues such as access to healthcare and education and poverty. Development programs like the National Initiative for Human Development seek to create modern citizens who are responsible, self-sustaining, and will make choices that better their well being. Hughes Rinker considers the implications that the reorientation from primarily economic to social development has on reproductive healthcare. Drawing on observations in health clinics; interviews with patients, medical staff, and at government and development agencies; and a document analysis, she demonstrates how women appropriate the medical practices and spaces of intervention aimed at creating modern citizens to form new religious identities, novel ideas of motherhood, and interpretations of neoliberal citizenship based on Islamic beliefs. Women’s interpretations of Islam are not incompatible with the state’s agenda for modernization, but rather serve as rationale for women to accept modern reproductive practices, such as contraception and pregnancy tests. However, even though female patients appropriate medical practices, they reinscribe development tropes that suggest they participate in modernization through their reproductive bodies and mothering instead of their productive labor. Hughes Rinker complicates neoliberalism as she shows it is unproductive to have a set conceptualization of neoliberal citizens, and more productive to examine the practices and discourses that create such citizens.

Building Modern Morocco One Woman at a Time

Author : Cortney Lynne Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781124186894
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Building Modern Morocco One Woman at a Time written by Cortney Lynne Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography is a study of the roles Moroccan women play in the country's current development policy. In 2005, Morocco launched a new development initiative that shifts focus from economic growth to human development, specifically changing individuals' attitudes and how they think about themselves as citizens. The government acknowledges women have been a "forgotten element" in Moroccan development since the country achieved independence from France in 1956, and now recognizes how crucial they are within the modernization process. However, women are mainly included through their reproductive bodies instead of their productive labor and are given the responsibility of controlling the fertility rate and population growth for the country. Given this situation, this ethnography seeks to answer three questions: What are the reproductive subjects Morocco is trying to create through development? What are the childbearing and childrearing practices associated with these subjects? And, how do women interpret these practices and how do they shape how they see their roles as citizens? Based upon eighteen months of ethnographic research in and around the capital city of Rabat, using participant-observation, formal and informal interviews, and a visual and textual analysis of various materials, I argue that my female participants appropriate modern reproductive practices - contraception, ultrasounds, and gynecological exams - to suit their everyday lifestyles. While the goals they hold concerning modernization overlap those of the government, development organizations, and medical providers (smaller families, educated children, a healthier population, and better employment opportunities), the processes to reach these objectives differ between the various parties. Here, drawing on information primarily collected in three health clinics that offered reproductive health services and selected female patients' homes, I explicate these overlaps and discrepancies to argue that Moroccan women see modern childbearing and childrearing practices as helping them become better Muslims and mothers (or future mothers), whereas the larger institutions see such practices as liberating women and aiding them take control over their lives and bodies. In reality, as they appropriate modern reproductive practices, Moroccan women are participating in the development agenda in a way that prescribes them as citizens through their ability to give birth and nurture children.

Islam, Reproductive Health, and Women's Rights

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Reproductive Health, and Women's Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Religious Beliefs in Relation to Reproductive Health

Author : Jonna Arousell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546536765
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Religious Beliefs in Relation to Reproductive Health written by Jonna Arousell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Mustafa Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Mustafa Organization is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought!

Women, Islam and Modernity

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134331568
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Women, Islam and Modernity written by Linda Rae Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.

Applied Anthropology

Author : Sheena Nahm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317428021
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Applied Anthropology written by Sheena Nahm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together recent innovative work in applied and practicing anthropology. Organised around the theme of unexpectedness, it examines some of the novel spaces, topics, and methods that anthropologists are involved with. The volume emphasises non-traditional settings and demonstrates the important role of anthropology in addressing some of the pressing issues facing society today. The contributors offer detailed ethnographic examples from their own research and work that give students valuable insight and advice. Drawn mainly from the United States, the case studies illustrate the diverse arenas in which anthropologists operate, from law and finance to education and health care. Simultaneous consideration is given to practical applications, theoretical reflections, and professional experiences.

Actively Dying

Author : Cortney Hughes Rinker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000335771
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Actively Dying written by Cortney Hughes Rinker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during serious illness and end-of-life care. It shifts "actively dying" from a medical phrase used to describe patients who are expected to pass away soon or who exhibit signs of impending death, to a theoretical framework to analyze how end-of-life care, particularly within a hospital, shapes the ways that patients, families, and providers understand Islam and think of themselves as Muslim. Using the dying body as the main object of analysis, the volume shows that religious identities of Muslim patients, loved ones, and caregivers are not only created when living, but also through the physical process of dying and through death. Based on ethnographic and qualitative research carried out mainly in the Washington, D.C. region, this volume will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociology, public health, gerontology, and religious studies.

Everyday Life in Global Morocco

Author : Rachel Newcomb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253031303
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Global Morocco written by Rachel Newcomb and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb's close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East

Author : Soraya Altorki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118475658
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East written by Soraya Altorki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in the Middle East Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation in the Middle Eastern region and its relations with other areas of the world Features contributions by top experts in various Middle East anthropological specialties Features in-depth coverage of issues drawn from religion, the arts, language, politics, political economy, the law, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization

Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion

Author : John J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351050850
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion written by John J. Fitzgerald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller understanding of the human person. In response, various authors here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert contributors—including philosophers, physicians, and theologians and scholars of religion— answer key questions such as: What is the relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death? The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on medicine and the body.

Islam, Standards, and Technoscience

Author : Johan Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317356993
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Standards, and Technoscience written by Johan Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halal (literally, "permissible" or "lawful") production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two countries a special position in the rapidly expanding global market for halal products: in these nations state bodies certify halal products as well as spaces (shops, factories, and restaurants) and work processes, and so consumers can find state halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world. Building on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe, this book provides an exploration of the role of halal production, trade, and standards. Fischer explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge. Focusing on the "bigger institutional picture" that frames everyday halal consumption, Fischer provides a multisited ethnography of the overlapping technologies and techniques of production, trade, and standards that together warrant a product as "halal," and thereby help to format the market. Exploring global halal in networks, training, laboratories, activism, companies, shops and restaurants, this book will be an essential resource to scholars and students of social science interested in the global interface zones between religion, standards, and technoscience.

The Routledge History of Death since 1800

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639848
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Death since 1800 written by Peter N. Stearns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history – the history of the past 250 years – in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject. The book is divided into three parts, with the first considering major trends in death history and identifying widespread patterns of change and continuity in the material and cultural features of death since 1800. The second part turns to specifically regional experiences, and the third offers more specialized chapters on key topics in the modern history of death. Historical findings and debates feed directly into a current and prospective assessment of death, as many societies transition into patterns of ageing that will further alter the death experience and challenge modern reactions. Thus, a final chapter probes this topic, by way of introducing the links between historical experience and current trajectories, ensuring that the book gives the reader a framework for assessing the ongoing process, as well as an understanding of the past. Global in focus and linking death to a variety of major developments in modern global history, the volume is ideal for all those interested in the multifaceted history of how death is dealt with in different societies over time and who want access to the rich and growing historiography on the subject. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Contemporary Bioethics

Author : Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319184288
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Bioethics written by Mohammed Ali Al-Bar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

Precarious Modernities

Author : Cristiana Strava
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350232556
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Precarious Modernities written by Cristiana Strava and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca's margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of 'modernization'. Focusing on the everyday lives and spaces of a mythicized community, and its interaction with heritage activists, international development agendas and technocratic planning regimes, the book documents how the depoliticization of the urban margins aids the consolidation of deeply unequal social, spatial, and economic orders. The result is a unique account of the political continuities, security logics, economic ideologies and competing forces that shape the possibilities open to precarious communities in a storied and sprawling metropolis. As marginalized inhabitants develop pragmatic ways of appropriating or resisting powerful agendas, unanticipated and novel forms of political engagement emerge. These signal the revival and reconfiguration of notions of class and open up creative and alternative spatial avenues for participation in an era of increasing authoritarianisms.

Anthropological Perspectives on Aging

Author : Britteny M. Howell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072573
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives on Aging written by Britteny M. Howell and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history. As the world’s population over 65 years of age continues to increase, this wide-ranging approach fills a growing need for both academics and service professionals in gerontology, geriatrics, and related fields. Case studies from the United States, Tibet, Turkey, China, Nigeria, and Mexico provide examples of the ways age-related changes are influenced by environmental, genetic, sociocultural, and political-economic variables. Taken together, they help explain how the experience of aging varies across time and space. These contributions from noted anthropological scholars examine evolutionary and biological understandings of human aging, the roles of elders in various societies, issues of gender and ageism, and the role of chronic illness and “successful aging” among older adults. This volume highlights how an anthropology of aging can illustrate how older adults adapt to shifting life circumstances and environments, including changes to the ways in which individuals and families care for them. The research in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging can also help researchers, students, and practitioners reach across disciplines to address age discrimination and help improve health outcomes throughout the life course.

HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine

Author : Graham Fordham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317632745
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine written by Graham Fordham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit with the forces that generated the epidemic and with the social control agendas of the state, and that as such it has increased the weight of structural violence bearing upon the afflicted. The book also questions claims of Thai AIDS control success, arguing that these can only be made at the cost of excluding categories such as intravenous drug users, the incarcerated, and homosexuals, who continue to experience extraordinarily high levels of levels of HIV infection. Considered deviant and undeserving, these persons have deliberately been excluded from harm reduction programs. Overall, this work argues for the untapped potential of anthropological research in the health field, a confident anthropology rooted in ethnography and a critical reflexivity. Crucially, it argues that in context of interdisciplinary collaborations, anthropological research must refuse relegation to the status of an adjunct discipline, and must be free epistemologically and methodologically from the universalizing assumptions and practices of biomedicine.

Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds

Author : Holly F. Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679881
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds written by Holly F. Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease. This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle- and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and underlying political forces and structural variables. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776937_oachapter3.pdf