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14677300

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on the individual level. It illustrates how local meanings of infertility are shaped by the social and cultural context and how they influence the life experiences and coping behaviours of infertile women in an Ijo community in the Niger Delta. Infertility in Amakiri is a stigma. Barren women cannot attain full womanhood and join appropriate age associations since they cannot be circumcised without having given birth. Uncircumcised women cannot be burried within the town, rather, their corpses are buried in a designated forest. The paper is based on over twenty years of ethnographic field work, a complete census of one of the town's quarters to estimate the level of infertility and on the life histories of infertile women. The life histories are used to illustrate how women of various ages, educational levels and occupations cope with their common experience of infertility.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1118-4841
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
46-56
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-12-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Profiles of infertility in southern Nigeria: women's voices from Amakiri.
pubmed:affiliation
Brown University, Department of Anthropology, 128 Hope Street, Providence, R.I. 02912, USA. Marida_Hollos@brown.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article