Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.

xv, 295 pages : maps ; 23 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.

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