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Placental politics : CHamoru women, white womanhood, and indigeneity under U.S. colonialism in Guam / Christine Taitano DeLisle.

Author/creator DeLisle, Christine Taitano author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Descriptionxxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title CHamoru women, white womanhood, and indigeneity under U.S. colonialism in Guam
Series Critical indigeneities
Critical indigeneities. ^A1325681
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 GuÄhan: Agueda Johnston and new CHamoru womanhood -- Following the historical and cultural kinship "where America's day begins".
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2020016823
ISBN9781469652696 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN1469652692 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN9781469652702 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN1469652706 paperback alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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