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91. Publications & Writing
Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In Uncertain Honor, 1997 IDRF Fellow Jennifer Johnson-Hanks argues that this demographic fact has social causes by offering a rich case study of contraception, abortion, and informal…
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92. Publications & Writing
Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development
…India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of nat…
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93. Publications & Writing
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan
Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from
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94. Publications & Writing
When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia
In When Women Have Wings, 1998 IDRF Fellow Donna F. Murdock provides an insightful and detailed look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments apparent in a women’s development project in Medellín, Colombia. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic field research in…
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95. Publications & Writing
Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India
Examined through a framework of access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and interpersonal relationships, 2000 IDRF Fellow Sarah Pinto follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district from a range of caste…
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96. Publications & Writing
Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal
In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-le…
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97. Publications & Writing
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed Sekou Toure to power. Early revolutionary fervour was not to last, and until his death in 1984, Sekou Toure ruled with an iron fist. What would it have been like to participate in Guinea's changing political fo…
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