Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan

by Amal Fadlalla and Amal Hassan Fadlalla

In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood through bearing and raising healthy children, especially sons. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. Amidst struggle for survival and expectations of heroic mothering, women face realities that challenge their ability to fulfill their prescribed roles. Even as the effects of modernity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299223809
• ISBN13: 9780299223809
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"