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Author Ahluwalia, Sanjam, 1968-

Title Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947 / Sanjam Ahluwalia
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
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Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index
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Subject Birth control -- India -- History
Contraception -- history
Family Planning Services -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Birth control
Geburtenregelung
SUBJECT India
Subject India
Indien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718375
ISBN 9780252090387
0252090381
1283077329
9781283077323
9786613077325
6613077321