Where There Is No Midwife : : Birth and Loss in Rural India / / Sarah Pinto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Pinto, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 WORK WHERE THERE IS NO MIDWIFE --; Chapter 2 BODIES THE POISONOUS LOTUS --; Chapter 3 MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT INSTITUTIONS --; Chapter 4 SEEING VISUALITY IN PREGNANCY --; Chapter 5 DYING IN THE BIG, BIG HANDS OF GOD --; Chapter 6 IDEALS CIPHERS OF TRADITION --; Chapter 7 TALK CASTING DESIRE --; EPILOGUE --; NOTES --; WORKS CITED --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450333; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450333?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sarah Pinto.

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.