Birth on the threshold [electronic resource] : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 618.2/00954 21
- RG530.3.I42 I583 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems 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.
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