Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India /

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Arguing that the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth", this text focuses on the birth experiences of lower-class women in Southern India and reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Childbirth > India, South.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Maternal Health Services
Labor, Obstetric > ethnology
Women's Health
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Pregnancy & Childbirth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Women > Health and hygiene
Childbirth
India
South India
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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