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Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India
Cecilia Coale Van Hollen-
Frontmatter
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Acknowlegments (page xii)
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Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
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Prologue: Birth on the Threshold (page 1)
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Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu (page 5)
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1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse (page 36)
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2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era (page 57)
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3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens (page 76)
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4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth (page 112)
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5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards (page 141)
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6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period (page 166)
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7. Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance (page 206)
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Epilogue (page 215)
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Appendix I. Sample Interview Questionnaires (page 221)
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Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995 (page 236)
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Glossary (page 239)
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Notes (page 243)
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Bibliography (page 265)
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Index (page 281)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AQ | 77.4 (Autumn 2004):867-870 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4150867 |
CHS | 7.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2005): 637-639 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4005408 |
JRAI | 12.2 (Jun. 2006): 499-501 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804298 |
AQ | 77.4 (Fall 2004): 867-870 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v077/77.4seymour.html |
BHM | 79.1 (Spring 2005): 172-173 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/summary/v079/79.1hodges.html |
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Published: c2003
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520223585 (hardcover)
- 9780520935396 (ebook)
- 9780520223592 (paper)