Birth on the threshold
Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India Cecilia Van Hollen
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
ISBN: 1417525541
DDC: 618.200954
LCC: RG530.3
Edition: (electronic bk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
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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