TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Hollen,Cecilia Coale
TI  - Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India 
SN  - 0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - RG530.3.I42    I583 2003
U1  - 618.2/00954 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - India, South
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/2003003890.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2003003890.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2003003890.html
ER  -