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Sumud : birth, oral history, and persisting in Palestine / Livia Wick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wick, Livia, author.
- Series:
- Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse. New York : Syracuse University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Wick's powerful ethnography opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. She maps the ways in which individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The other side of birth stories
- Midwives' oral histories of struggle
- A history of oral history
- Work in Sumud institutions and its situated meanings
- The popular health movement and the childbirth network : models in participatory health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wick, Livia Sumud
- ISBN:
- 9780815637882
- 9780815655725
- OCLC:
- 1344379188
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