ISBN:
9781469652702
,
9781469652696
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 297 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Critical indigeneities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4889952
Keywords:
Geschichte 1898-1945
;
Frau
;
Chamorro
;
Krankenschwester
;
Hebamme
;
Verhaltenskodex
;
Weibliche Weiße
;
USA
;
Guam
;
Women, Chamorro / Guam / American influences
;
Indigenous peoples / Guam / Social life and customs / 19th century
;
Indigenous peoples / Guam / Social life and customs / 20th century
;
Women, White / Guam / History
;
Midwifery / Guam
;
Indigenous peoples / Social life and customs
;
Midwifery
;
Women, White
;
Guam
;
1800-1999
;
History
;
USA
;
Guam
;
Frau
;
Chamorro
;
Weibliche Weiße
;
Krankenschwester
;
Hebamme
;
Verhaltenskodex
;
Geschichte 1898-1945
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:
Following the historical footnotes of CHamoru women's embodied land work -- I che'cho' i pattera: gendering inafa'maolek via CHamoru lay (midwife) of the land -- White woman, small matters: Susan Dyer's tour-of-duty feminism in Guam -- Flagging the desire to photograph: Helen Paul's "Eye/Land/People" -- Steering and stewarding Guåhan: Agueda Johnston and new CHamoru womanhood -- Following the historical and cultural kinship "where America's day begins"
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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