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In Western humanitarian and media narratives, obstetric fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Women --- Fistula --- Reproductive health --- Health and hygiene --- Treatment --- Social conditions --- fistula, birth, injuries, Niger, women, Africa, obstetric, fertility, humanitarian, media, clinics, West Africa, pregnancy, health care, medicine.