Borders of being : citizenship, fertility, and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jolly, Margaret.

Ram, Kalpana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--Asia.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects--Oceania.

Sex role--Asia.

Sex role.

Sex role--Oceania.

Birth control--Government policy--Asia.

Birth control.

Birth control--Government policy--Oceania.

Women--Asia--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Oceania--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Birth control--Government policy.

Human body--Social aspects.

Asia--Social life and customs.

Asia.

Manners and customs.

Oceania--Social life and customs.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2001]

Summary:

Explores the intermingling of women's bodies and nations' boundaries.

Contents:

Embodied states: familial and national genealogies in Asia and the Pacific / Margaret Jolly

Government agency, women's agency: feminisms, fertility, and population control / Kathryn Robinson

Her body and her being: of widows and abducted women in post-partition India / Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin

Rationalizing fecund bodies: family planning policy and the modern Indian nation-state / Kalpana Ram

Keep it in the family: government, marriage, and sex in contemporary China / Gary Sigley

Doing God's work: citizenship, gender, and sexuality in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon

Fecundity and the fertility decline in Bali / Lynette Parker

Empowerment or control? Northeast Thai women and family planning / Andrea Whittaker

Mutual goals? Family planning on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Christine M. Dureau

Infertile states: person and collectivity, region and nation in the rhetoric of Pacific population / Margaret Jolly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472097555

0472067559

OCLC:

44650769