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- Title: Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science.
- Author : Ahfad Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 282 KB
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This chapter explores the process of reforming 'refractory' female bodies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It discusses the goals of the Midwives Training School in Omdurman and the methods of the British women who established it during the 1920s and 1930s in light of ethnographic data from the rural north. I suggest that while midwifery training had contradictory outcomes and failed to undermine the logic that underpinned the practice of pharaonic (female) Circumcision, some aspects of it became woven into the fabric of Sudanese daily life in unexpected ways. Parties to the colonizing venture looked, inescapably, in two directions at once: to the immediate situation in which they were mutually engaged, and to the respective cultural contexts of health from whence they came and in which they remained grounded. Key words: Colonialism, gender, midwifery training, female circumcision
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