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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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