Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN: - 0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 618.2/00954 21
- RG530.3.I42 I583 2003
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قاعة الثقاقات الاجنبية - الدور الثالث | المكتبة المركزبة الجديدة - جامعة القاهرة | 618.200954 V256 L.C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 01000110200767000 |
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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