{"product_id":"managing-motherhood-managing-risk-denise-allen-9780472030279","title":"Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eManaging Motherhood, Managing Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 health policy recommendations go awry when implemented at the local level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of how threats to maternal health have been defined and addressed at the global, national, and local levels, \u003ci\u003eManaging Motherhood, Managing Risk\u003c\/i\u003e presents two contrasting, and oftentimes competing, definitions of risk: those that form the basis of international recommendations and national maternal health policies and those that do not. The effect that these contrasting definitions of risk have on women's fertility-related experiences at the local level are explored throughout the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study employs an innovative approach to the analysis of maternal health risk, one that situates rural Tanzanian women's fertility-related experiences within a broader historical and sociocultural context. Beginning with an examination of how maternal health risk was defined and addressed during the early years of British colonial rule in Tanganyika and moving to a discussion of an internationally conceived maternal health initiative that was launched on the world stage in the late 1980s, the author explores the similarities in the language used and solutions proposed by health development experts over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis set of \"official\" maternal health risks is then compared to an alternative set of risks that emerge when attention is focused on women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth at the local level. Although some of these latter risks are often spoken about as deriving from spiritual or supernatural causes, the case studies presented throughout the second half of the book reveal that the concept of risk in the context of pregnancy and childbirth is much more complex, involving the interplay of spiritual, physical, and economic aspects of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Denise Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472030272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472030279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.95d","brand":"Denise Allen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086692102399,"sku":"9780472030279","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7961c380-1feb-4321-a1c7-a05735dc3446.jpg?v=1769096059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/managing-motherhood-managing-risk-denise-allen-9780472030279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}