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Title
'Women Know Their Place': Gender and the Politics of Public Health in Twentieth-Century Senegal |
Full text
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4xd2k5ms |
Date
2016 |
Author(s)
Cole, Jonathan Joseph |
Abstract
This dissertation examines how the politicization of women's reproductive healthand fertility presented new opportunities for women to assert themselves socially as wellas politically. From colonial policies designed to encourage maternity births during the1920s and 1930s to contemporary efforts to promote the use of family planning and birthcontrol among Senegalese women, maternal and infant health initiatives transformedwomen's relationship to the state. Using these interventions as a backdrop, this projectexplores the ways that women have appropriated the language of development to makewider claims about their roles in Senegalese society. These findings challenge thecommon assumption that public health interventions impose hierarchies of race, class,and gender. Instead, they emphasize how Senegalese women transformed their positionsof subordination into platforms for social and political change. By embracing rather thaneschewing their roles as wives and mothers, women thus carved out new spaces ofauthority and power. |
Subject(s)
African history; Gender studies; African studies; Gender; history; maternal and infant health; medicine; Senegal |
Coverage
128 |
Language
en |
Publisher
eScholarship, University of California |
Relation
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4xd2k5ms |
Type of publication
dissertation |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
Cole, Jonathan Joseph. (2016). 'Women Know Their Place': Gender and the Politics of Public Health in Twentieth-Century Senegal. UC Berkeley: History. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4xd2k5ms |
Rights
public |
Identifier
qt4xd2k5ms |
Repository
Berkeley - University of California
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