Birth on the Threshold Childbirth and Modernity in South India

Name: Birth on the Threshold Childbirth and Modernity in South India
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ISBN: 9780520223592

ISBN-10: 0520223594

ISBN-13: 9780520223592

Edition: 2004

Authors: Cecilia Van Hollen

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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 Thresholdreveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990



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Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration Prologue: Birth on the Threshold


Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu



The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" 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 Epilogue


Appendix I


Appendix II


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index