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Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices Cortney Hughes Rinker

Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices By Cortney Hughes Rinker

Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices by Cortney Hughes Rinker


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This ethnography examines the relationship between development policies, womens reproductive practices, and understandings of Islam in Morocco. It shows how female patients at reproductive health clinics appropriate medical practices aimed at crafting modern citizens to create new religious identities, novel ideas of motherhood, and neoliberal citizenship based on Islamic beliefs.

Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices Summary

Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices by Cortney Hughes Rinker

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, womens reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic reforms in the preceding decades ultimately did not address social issues such as access to healthcare and education and poverty. Development programs like the National Initiative for Human Development seek to create modern citizens who are responsible, self-sustaining, and will make choices that better their well being. Hughes Rinker considers the implications that the reorientation from primarily economic to social development has on reproductive healthcare. Drawing on observations in health clinics; interviews with patients, medical staff, and at government and development agencies; and a document analysis, she demonstrates how women appropriate the medical practices and spaces of intervention aimed at creating modern citizens to form new religious identities, novel ideas of motherhood, and interpretations of neoliberal citizenship based on Islamic beliefs. Womens interpretations of Islam are not incompatible with the states agenda for modernization, but rather serve as rationale for women to accept modern reproductive practices, such as contraception and pregnancy tests. However, even though female patients appropriate medical practices, they reinscribe development tropes that suggest they participate in modernization through their reproductive bodies and mothering instead of their productive labor. Hughes Rinker complicates neoliberalism as she shows it is unproductive to have a set conceptualization of neoliberal citizens, and more productive to examine the practices and discourses that create such citizens.

About Cortney Hughes Rinker

Cortney Hughes Rinker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.

Table of Contents

Prologue. Introduction: Building Modern Morocco One Woman at a Time. Part I 1. "Dragging" Reproduction to the Center: Development and Reproductive Policies in Morocco 2. Popular Culture and Textbooks: Creating Modern Reproductive Subjects and Mothers Through Images and Text 3. Spaces of Intervention: The Sights and Sounds of Reproductive Health Part II 4. Contraception and Living a Quality Islamic Life 5. "I Cant, God Knows It": Pregnancy Tests and Islamic Rationality 6. Raising the Next Generation of Moroccan Citizens to Have "Good Hearts". Conclusion: The Body, Uncertainty, and the Future of Morocco.

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NPB9780415818872
9780415818872
0415818877
Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices by Cortney Hughes Rinker
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2013-03-04
196
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