Placental politics : CHamoru women, white womanhood, and indigeneity under U.S. colonialism in Guam / Christine Taitano DeLisle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLisle, Christine Taitano, author.

Series:

Critical indigeneities.

Critical indigeneities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Chamorro--Guam--American influences.

Women, Chamorro.

Guam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"From 1898 until World War II, U.S. imperial expansion brought significant numbers of white American women to Guam, primarily as wives to naval officers stationed on the island. Indigenous CHamoru women engaged with navy wives in a range of settings, and they used their relationships with American women to forge new forms of social and political power. As Christine Taitano DeLisle explains, much of the interaction between these women occurred in the realms of health care, midwifery, child care, and education. DeLisle focuses specifically on the 'pattera', Indigenous nurse-midwives who served CHamoru families. Though they showed strong interest in modern delivery practices and other accoutrements of American modernity under U.S. naval hegemony, the pattera and other CHamoru women never abandoned deeply held Indigenous beliefs, values, and practices, especially those associated with 'inafa'maolek'--a code of behavior through which individual, collective, and environmental balance, harmony, and well-being were stewarded and maintained"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Following the historical footnotes of CHamoru women's embodied land work

I che'cho' i pattera: gendering inafa'maolek via CHamoru lay (midwife) of the land

White woman, small matters: Susan Dyer's tour-of-duty feminism in Guam

Flagging the desire to photograph: Helen Paul's "Eye/Land/People"

Steering and stewarding Guåhan: Agueda Johnston and new CHamoru womanhood

Following the historical and cultural kinship "where America's day begins".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908480-5-5

979-88-908480-6-2

1-4696-5270-6

OCLC:

1292361461