Birth on the threshold, childbirth and modernity in South India, Cecilia Van Hollen
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Birth on the threshold, childbirth and modernity in South India, Cecilia Van Hollen
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index
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non fiction
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Birth on the threshold
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electronic resource
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58538349
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Cecilia Van Hollen
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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childbirth and modernity in South India
Table of contents
The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: the problem 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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