Contingent Lives
Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecontingentlivesf00bled
- ISBN-100226058522
- ISBN-139780226058528
- LibraryThing2735500
- Goodreads768984
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- Better World Books9780226058528
- Open LibraryOL9775118M
Classifications
- LCCHQ766.5.G25B54 2002
Description
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 reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, 'Contingent Lives' explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates ageing and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views ageing as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma.
First Sentence
Kaddy Seesay, a thirty-year-old remarried divorcee, happened to fall into a sample of women interviewed every month for fifteen months, during a 1992-95 research project on contraception and birth intervals in rural Gambia.
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