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Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowlegments (page xii)
  • Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
  • Prologue: Birth on the Threshold (page 1)
  • Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu (page 5)
  • 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse (page 36)
  • 2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era (page 57)
  • 3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens (page 76)
  • 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth (page 112)
  • 5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards (page 141)
  • 6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period (page 166)
  • 7. Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance (page 206)
  • Epilogue (page 215)
  • Appendix I. Sample Interview Questionnaires (page 221)
  • Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995 (page 236)
  • Glossary (page 239)
  • Notes (page 243)
  • Bibliography (page 265)
  • Index (page 281)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
Citable Link
Published: c2003
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520223585 (hardcover)
  • 9780520935396 (ebook)
  • 9780520223592 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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