Buried in the red dirt race, reproduction, and death in modern Palestine

Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hasso, Frances Susan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022.
Colección:Social Sciences
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645337206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'Buried in the red dirt': Historiography and history of missing Palestinian bodies; 1. 'We are far more advanced': The politics of ill and healthy babies in colonial Palestine; 2. 'Making the country pay for itself': Health, hunger, and midwives; 3. 'Children are the treasure and property of the nation': Demography, eugenics, and mothercraft; 4. 'Technically illegal': Birth control in religious, colonial and state legal traditions; 5. 'I did not want children': Birth control in discourse and practice; 6. 'The art of death in life': Palestinian futurism and reproduction after 1948; Bibliography.