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African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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For women facing shame from infertility struggles.

"African Women and the Shame" offers hope and healing.

You can find strength and community in your journey.

Explore the deep cultural challenges of infertility faced by African women in this insightful book that offers hope and understanding through Igbo traditions.

In African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility: An Ethico-Cultural Study of Christian Response to Childlessness among the Igbo People of West Africa, Okoro discusses the shipwreck that is associated with infertility in marriage in Africa. Within this space, childlessness places a big question mark on a woman's femininity and the self-esteem of the man. The stigma of infertility most often leads to social isolation and humiliation, particularly of married women, even when the source of infertility may not have come from them. Unfortunately, this situation goes against the highly valued Igbo ethical principle of onye aghala nwanne ya, meaning ""no kith or kin should be left behind."" Therefore, the purpose of the book is to help married people in Igbo land and Africa at large to appropriate this indigenous principle in their response to the problem of infertility. To attain this, the author critically evaluates discrimination and oppression of infertile couples, particularly women, and shedding light on the paradoxes found in Igbo cultural expressions. He employs a constructive, ethical, cultural, religious, contextual, and theological approach that explores important Igbo religious paradigms like Chi (an Igbo religio-cultural understanding of personal destiny) and Ani (the feminine deity in-charge of the land and fertility) to argue the case for the liberation and integration of infertile couples.
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  • Title

    African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility

  • Author

    Okoro Damasus C. Okoro

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    June 2020

  • Weight

    291g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725265707

  • ISBN-10

    1725265702

  • Eden Code

    5288404

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