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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan Janice Boddy Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007 Reviewed by Rebecca Henriksen Janice Boddy’s Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan critically examines how British colonial health and education projects altered modes of embodiment …

Lynn Thomas, University of California Press, 2003 Reviewed by Parin Dossa, Association Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University In Politics of the Womb, author Lynn M. Thomas shows how struggles over reproduction were crucial to colonial rule and nation …

Helen A. Regis, Boulder: Westview Press, 2002 Reviewed by Hilarie Kelly, California State University, Fullerton Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroon is one of a series of books in Westview Case Studies in Anthropology. Series editor Edward …

Paula Holmes-Eber, Westview Case Studies in Anthropology, 2003 Reviewed by Aysecan Terzioglu, Anthropology Department, CUNY-Graduate Center In Daughters of Tunis, Paula Holmes-Eber provides insightful comments on the social and economic lives of Muslim women in Tunis. She investigates the socialization …

Jónína Einarsdóttir Wisconsin University Press, 2004 Reviewed by Jamila Bargach, National School of Architecture, Morocco Despite the sad nature of the main topic of Tired of Weeping, this is ultimately an ethnography that celebrates the redemptive nature of love, and …