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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction | 35 |
| Ch. 3 | Setting, Data, and Methods | 62 |
| Ch. 4 | Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing | 91 |
| Ch. 5 | Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing | 129 |
| Ch. 6 | Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body | 162 |
| Ch. 7 | Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging | 216 |
| Ch. 8 | Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion | 250 |
| Ch. 9 | Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations | 285 |
| Ch. 10 | Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging | 321 |
| Appendixes | 335 | |
| Glossary | 355 | |
| References | 357 | |
| Index | 385 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Anthony Vallant
reviewed Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa on February 14, 2012
Contingent Lives
Fascinating train wreck of a story, but my feminist sensibilities had a hard time allowing the author to lead such a life. She turned down a chance a real love to do what she thought god wanted. Strike one. Followed "signs" to lead her into what she knew would be a life of submission and silence. Strike two. Any children would also be prey. Strikes three, four, and five.
At the hands of men, she had decades full of heartbreak, broken promises, charismatic bullies and endless suffering under the pretense of it all being god's command. Religious brainwashing, faith, call it what you will, is not an excuse - for all of her yelling and screaming she didn't try to help herself until it was almost too late.
I just couldn't summon sympathy for her and was at times disgusted with her alternating tales of strength and weakness - "refused" to allow her husband another wife? Well, he did it anyway and she accepted it. Children malnourished because this husband was off working, marrying, etc. elsewhere? Oh well, she'll just beg and borrow food instead of holding the man who kept her helpless accountable. This ain't no "Big Love".
Compelling book, but the author? Well, she just pissed me off.
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