Fistula Politics(English, Paperback, Heller Alison)

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Fistula Politics(English, Paperback, Heller Alison) is written by Heller Alison and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978800363 (ISBN 10) and 9781978800366 (ISBN 13).

Obstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media narratives, fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. In Fistula Politics, Alison Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics.