Buried in the red dirt : : race, reproduction, and death in modern Palestine / / Frances S. Hasso.
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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| Superior document: | Social Sciences |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social Sciences
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.