Uncertain Honor Summary

The tittle of my book is “Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis”, written by Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, the main target throughout this book are Beti women in Southern Cameroon. The main purpose of this book is to be able to focus on educated women through childbearing in either in a family and households. By educating Beti women before conception and also during pregnancy and after delivery will create the chance of lower rate of fertility which has done more harm to the population of Beti women. As mention in the book, women that are illiterate bear more children, while the most educated, bear fewer children. That why there are regulation toward such aspects. The author objectives were more about studying development problems; which lead to demographic outcomes by targeting different type of cases such as social reproduction, contraception, abortion, fertility rate and informal adoption. The practices result in school careers and manipulations of marriage, educated Beti women to able to manage …show more content…
As the book point out, the author arguments were well specified throughout the book, Beti women were very concern and point out, because this was more in the social category of mother rather the chronological events of giving birth. Three arguments are put forward in the book. First, among Beti women it is entry into the social category of 'mother' rather than the biological event of giving birth that women seek to regulate.
Third, building on the ethnographic case study the author proposes recognition of certain milestones or “vital conjunctures” which are surrounding by the three moments of child bearing: conception, pregnancy and birth. This is important because they are the 3 vital conjunctures relies on the future of the Cameroonian women that will be concern about fertility reproduction. Pregnancy in the traditional of Beti practices is more relate to their sex through