Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

by Denise Allen

Book Overview

In Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk, Denise Roth Allen persuasively argues that development interventions in the Third World often have unintended and unacknowledged consequences. Based on twenty-two months of fieldwork in the Shinyanga Region of west central Tanzania, this rich and engaging ethnography of women's fertility-related experiences highlights the processes by which a set of seemingly well-intentioned international maternal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472030272
• ISBN13: 9780472030279
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Compelling ethnographic account of maternity in Tanzania

This scholarly account of the concept of maternal risk in a third world country is a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive health and development. It provides an insightful account of how "safe motherhood" campaigns promoted by international development agencies fail to take in account local perspectives.