Reproductive politics and the making of modern India / / Mytheli Sreenivas.

"Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists,...

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Place / Publishing House:Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (285 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Economies of Reproduction in an Age of Empire
  • 2. Fertility, Sovereignty, and the Global Color Line
  • 3. Feminism, National Development, and Transnational Family Planning
  • 4. Regulating Reproduction in the Era of the Planetary "Population Bomb"
  • 5. Heterosexuality and the Happy Family
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.