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

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 295 p. :; map.
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245 1 0 |a Birth on the threshold  |h [electronic resource] :  |b childbirth and modernity in South India /  |c Cecilia Van Hollen. 
260 |a Berkeley :  |b University of California Press,  |c c2003. 
300 |a xv, 295 p. :  |b map. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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