ISBN:
9781469652726
,
1469652722
,
9781469652719
,
1469652714
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 298 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Critical indigeneities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als DeLisle, Christine Taitano Placental politics
DDC:
305.4889952
Keywords:
1800-1999
;
Women, Chamorro American influences
;
Indigenous peoples Social life and customs 19th century
;
Indigenous peoples Social life and customs 20th century
;
Women, White History
;
Midwifery
;
Blanches - Guam - Histoire
;
Sages-femmes - Guam
;
Indigenous peoples - Social life and customs
;
Midwifery
;
Women, White
;
History
;
Guam
Abstract:
"From 1898 until World War II, U.S. imperial expansion brought significant numbers of white American women to Guam, primarily as wives to naval officers stationed on the island. Indigenous CHamoru women engaged with navy wives in a range of settings, and they used their relationships with American women to forge new forms of social and political power. As Christine Taitano DeLisle explains, much of the interaction between these women occurred in the realms of health care, midwifery, child care, and education. DeLisle focuses specifically on the 'pattera', Indigenous nurse-midwives who served CHamoru families. Though they showed strong interest in modern delivery practices and other accoutrements of American modernity under U.S. naval hegemony, the pattera and other CHamoru women never abandoned deeply held Indigenous beliefs, values, and practices, especially those associated with 'inafa'maolek'--a code of behavior through which individual, collective, and environmental balance, harmony, and well-being were stewarded and maintained"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface: Decolonial habits of history -- Following the historical footnotes of CHamoru women's embodied land work -- I che'cho' i pattera: gendering inafa'maolek in a CHamoru lay of the land -- White woman, small matters: Susan Dyer's tour-of-duty feminism in Guåhan -- Flagging the desire to photograph: Helen Paul's "Eye/Land/People" -- Giniha yan Pinilan Guåhan: Agueda Johnston and new CHamoru womanhood -- Conclusion: Following the historical and cultural kinship "where America's day begins".
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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