Omschrijving
Central to the book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different “reproductive interruptions”: miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather than consider these events as inherently dissimilar, the Gbigbil women of eastern Cameroon see them all as instances of “wasted wombs” that leave their reproductive trajectories hanging in the balance.
Erica van der Sijpt is a medical anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam.