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9780226058511

Contingent Lives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226058511

  • ISBN10:

    0226058514

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reasonto have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Livesexplains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.

Author Biography

Caroline H. Bledsoe is a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction
Setting, Data, and Methods
Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing
Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing
Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body
Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging
Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion
Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations
Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging
Appendixes
Glossary
References
Index
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