Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India - Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003)
The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: the problem of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health servi ces in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregna nt women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies o f birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in publi c maternity wards -- "Baby friendly" hospitals and bad mothers: maneuve ring development during the postpartum period -- Conclusion: reproducti ve rights, "choices", and resistance.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
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Keywords: Childbirth -- India, South