ISBN:
0520223594
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0520223586
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 295 p)
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map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Birth on the Threshold : Childbirth and Modernity in South India
DDC:
618.2/00954
Keywords:
Childbirth
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Childbirth ; India, South
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Even childbirth is affected by globalization-and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Maps appear on pages 17 and 30; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Prologue: Birth on the Threshold; Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu; 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse; 2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era; 3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens; 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth; 5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards
Description / Table of Contents:
6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum PeriodConclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance; Epilogue; Appendix I. Sample Interview Questionnaires; Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995; Glossary; A; B; C; D; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; S; T; U; V; W; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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