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Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947 /

This title traces the history of contraception use and production management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahluwalia, Sanjam, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Demographic rhetoric and sexual surveillance : Indian middle-class advocates of birth control, 1877-1947
  • Global agenda and local politics : western advocates and discourse of birth control in colonial India, 1920s-40s
  • Polyvocality, ambivalence, and negotiations : Indian middle-class feminism and debates on birth control in nationalist India, 1920s-40s
  • A fractured discourse : colonial attitudes on birth control in the twentieth century
  • Untrained "professionals" : medical practitioners and the politics of birth control in colonial India, 1920-47.