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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.
LIBRA RG530.3.I42 I583 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--India, South.
- Childbirth.
- South India.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 295 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This is an ethnographic study of the ways in which modernity is impacting the experiences of poor women during childbirth in Tamil Nadu, South India, and of the cultural constructions of gender produced in this process.
- Contents:
- The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: the problem of childbirth in colonial discourse
- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era
- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens
- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth
- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards
- "Baby friendly" hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period
- Conclusion: reproductive rights, "choices", and resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520223586
- 0520223594
- OCLC:
- 51728687
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