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Running after Pills

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ISBN-10: 0325070431

ISBN-13: 9780325070438

Edition: 2003

Authors: Amy Kaler

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Kaler examines how "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s. Based on extensive oral and archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced the development of the "imagined community" of the nascent Zimbabwean nation. Kaler's book reveals the numerous intricate connections among these different domains of social life. Her book also shows how ideas about gender influenced the opposition of African nationalists to the new contraceptive…    
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Book details

List price: $52.70
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 12/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Amy Kaler is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She has lived, worked and conducted research in southern and central Africa since 1990. Her fieldwork-based book Running After Pills: Gender, Politics and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe (Heinemann 2004) was nominated for the 2005 Joel Gregory Prize awarded by the Canadian African Studies Association. She is also the author of numerous qualitative and fieldwork-based articles in major journals in sociology, health, development studies and African studies. Melanie Beres is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Gender and Sociology at the University of Otago. Her research is in the area…    

Introduction
The Institutional History of Family Planning in Rhodesia
Blood and Boundaries: Local Knowledge of Physiologlogy and the Body
Contraception as Subversion: Gender and Power in Marital Relationships
Contraception as Disrespect: Fertility and Power in the Extended Family
Cutting Down the Nation: Fertility and African Nationalism
Conclusion
Appendix: The Biography of a Research Project