| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
biomedical |
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birth rate |
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birth stories |
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childbirth |
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class system |
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classism |
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colonialism |
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contemporary |
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ethnographers |
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ethnography |
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feminism |
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feminist |
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gender studies |
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gender |
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global |
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globalization |
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home birth |
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hospital birth |
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india |
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international |
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lower class |
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maternity |
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medical technology |
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midwifery |
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midwives |
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modern world |
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national |
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parenting |
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postcolonial |
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pregnancy |
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south india |
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tamil nadu |
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technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Childbirth -- India, South
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Maternal Health Services
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Labor, Obstetric -- ethnology
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Women's Health
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Childbirth
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| SUBJECT |
India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194 |
| Subject |
South India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003003890 |
| ISBN |
9780520935396 |
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052093539X |
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1282762400 |
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9781282762404 |
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1597344990 |
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9781597344999 |
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9786612762406 |
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6612762403 |
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