Infertility in a Crowded Country : Hiding Reproduction in India / Holly Donahue Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Holly Donahue, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive technology (Islamic law).

Reproductive technology.

Muslim women--Social conditions.

Infertility, Female.

Family planning.

Muslim women--India--Lucknow--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Reproductive technology (Islamic law)--India--Lucknow.

Reproductive technology--India--Lucknow.

Infertility, Female--India--Lucknow.

Family planning--India--Lucknow.

India--Lucknow.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, the stigmas and colonial legacies surrounding sexual propriety and population growth affect how Muslim women, often in poverty, cope with infertility. In Infertility in a Crowded Country, Holly Donahue Singh draws on interviews, observation, and autoethnographic perspectives in local communities and Lucknow's infertility clinics to examine access to technology and treatments and to explore how pop culture shapes the reproductive paths of women and their supporters through clinical spaces, health camps, religious sites, and adoption agencies. Donahue Singh finds that women are willing to transgress social and religious boundaries to seek healing. By focusing on interpersonal connections, Infertility in a Crowded Country provides a fascinating starting point for discussions of family, kinship, and gender; the global politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies; and ideologies and social practices around creating families"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253063885

OCLC:

1310787487