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Placental Politics
Christine Taitano DeLisle
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
DeLisle uses her evidence to argue for a "placental politics--a new conceptual paradigm for Indigenous women's political action. Drawing on oral histories, letters, photographs, military records, and more, DeLisle reveals how the entangled histories of CHamoru and white American women make us rethink the cultural politics of U.S. imperialism and the emergence of new Indigenous identities.
Kundenbewertungen
pre-World War II pattera, CHamoru modernities, Indigenous relationalities, U.S. empire, militarism, and Indigenous resistance in Guåhan, CHamoru gender and sexuality, placental politics, CHamoru history, CHamoru indigeneity, CHamoru relationalities, famalao'an CHamoru, CHamoru women’s mobilities, Native Pacific cultural studies, CHamoru women, CHamoru domesticity, Indigenous feminisms, CHamoru womanhood, white women’s tour-of-duty feminism, navy wives in Guam, Indigenous modernities in Guam, gender and inafa'maolek in Guåhan/Guam, Critical Indigenous studies, CHamoru femininity, CHamoru women’s activism, gender and kostumbren CHamoru in Guåhan/Guam, white womanhood, colonialism, and the Pacific, Native women’s history, CHamoru feminism, Native Pacific Islander roots and routes