Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India /
Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.
Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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.
0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003003890
Childbirth--India, South.
RG530.3.I42 / I583 2003
618.2/00954
Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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.
0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003003890
Childbirth--India, South.
RG530.3.I42 / I583 2003
618.2/00954