Birth on the Threshold : Childbirth and Modernity in South India /

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Even childbirth is affected by globalization-and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of bi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2003]
Temas:
Childbirth > India, South.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
biomedical.
birth rate.
birth stories.
childbirth.
class system.
classism.
colonialism.
contemporary.
ethnographers.
ethnography.
feminism.
feminist.
gender studies.
gender.
global.
globalization.
home birth.
hospital birth.
india.
international.
lower class.
maternity.
medical technology.
midwifery.
midwives.
modern world.
national.
parenting.
postcolonial.
pregnancy.
south india.
tamil nadu.
technology.
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