Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems 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.