Birth on the threshold [electronic resource] : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.

By: Van Hollen, Cecilia CoaleContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xv, 295 p. : mapSubject(s): Childbirth -- India, SouthGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 618.2/00954 LOC classification: RG530.3.I42 | I583 2003Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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