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She points to connections between economically dependent processes of urbanization, the disappearance of female productive roles and women's consequent obesity, and male labor migration, which contributes to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
The result today is malpractice to such a degree that infertility treatment in itself carries an increasing health risk for women.
But in contrast with the trend of the eighties, which Lila Abu-Lughod ' has characterized as stereotypical and unexciting theoretically, Inhorn's book (among others) seems to point to a new and more promising development, She combines a sophisticated analysis of power and resistance with such concepts as meaning and experience, and she rejects the narrow horizon of epidemiology, arguing in favor of a broad contextualization both in time and space, with interesting results.
Inhom's main point is that in order to understand patterns of fertility, one has to take into account people's local understanding of infertility.
2. The native point of view: Poor people want and need children, and they experience family p]anning campaigns as just another governmental interference which they want to resist.
Part of her argument remains unconvincing, but her main point about the necessity to understand the logic of infertility in order to understand the pattern of fertility is well argued.
Her arguments for the necessity of Islamization of women's and family's problems are pioneering ideas on the subject The book comprises four chapters and each chapter foJlows the general framework of the methodology of Islamization of Knowledge: presentation of the Western theories followed by their critical analysis and Islamic alternatives.