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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.

By: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Childbirth -- India, SouthDDC classification: 618.200954 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents
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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South Asian University

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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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