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UNINA9910457254403321 |
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Johnson Tina Phillips <1968-> |
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Childbirth in republican China [[electronic resource] ] : delivering modernity / / Tina Phillips Johnson |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011 |
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1-283-21355-9 |
9786613213556 |
0-7391-6442-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Childbirth - China - History - 20th century |
Maternal and infant welfare - China - History - 20th century |
Maternal health services - China - History - 20th century |
Motherhood - China - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Missionaries and modernity -- Reproduction theory : modern childbirth and modern motherhood -- The midwifery profession -- National reproduction in republican China -- Epilogue : reproduction in twentieth-century China. |
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"Childbirth is a window into the shifting cultural and political landscape of a particular place and time. Much can be learned about a culture by examining its treatment of women and children. More importantly, reproduction encompasses both a moral and a social imperative; the continuation of a society rests on childbirth. In imperial China, securing the continuation of the family line was the utmost filial act, with the family as the basic organizing unit of society and the state. Yi-li Wu noted that "childbirth was the warp on which the fabric of society was woven" in imperial China. I argue that childbirth remains so, and alterations in how childbirth is viewed and conducted merely point to larger ideological visions of social and political structures. Li Xiaojiang asserted in the preface to her anthropological study of modernization and traditional childbirth customs in rural China in the 1990s that |
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"because of its close relationship with levels of health and disease, birth is one of the keys to understanding and constructing women's lives, but our field of vision has been blind to it." Opening one's eyes to the rich material surrounding childbirth, the researcher is made aware that legislation regarding reproduction and birth, maternal and child health, and the general treatment of women and children illuminate the relative value or disregard a people carry for those women and children."--Publisher's description. |
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UNINA9910792220603321 |
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Contemporary Iran [[electronic resource] ] : economy, society, politics / / edited by Ali Gheissari |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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0-19-988860-4 |
0-19-537849-0 |
9786612053948 |
0-19-970285-3 |
1-282-05394-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Iran History 21st century |
Iran Social conditions 1997- |
Iran Politics and government 1997- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; Part I. Economy; 1. Oil Wealth and Economic Growth in Iran; 2. The Urban Provincial Periphery in Iran: Revolution and War in Ramhormoz; 3. Nimble Fingers No Longer! Women's Employment in Iran; Part II. Society; 4. Women, Religion, and Political Agency in Iran; 5. Who Will Catch Me If I Fall? Health and the Infrastructure of Risk for Urban Young Iranians; 6. From Punishment to Harm Reduction: Resecularization of |
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Addiction in Contemporary Iran; 7. Iran's New Scientific Community; Part III. Politics |
8. Constitutional Implications of Current Political Debates in Iran9. New Conservative Politics and Electoral Behavior in Iran; 10. Ethnicity and Religious Minority Politics in Iran; 11. Iran's Regional Policies since the End of the Cold War; 12. Iran's Persian Gulf Policy in the Post-Saddam Era; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Introduction, Ali Gheissari Part One: Economy 1. The Oil Wealth and Economic Growth in Iran, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani 2. The Urban Provincial Periphery in Iran: Revolution and War in Ramhormoz, Kaveh Ehsani 3. Nimble Fingers No Longer! Women's Employment in Iran, Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani Part Two: Society 4. Religion, Women, and Political Agency in Iran, Shahla Haeri 5. Who Will Catch Me if I Fall? Health and the Infrastructure of Risk for Urban Young Iranians, Pardis Mahdavi 6. From Punishment to Harm Reduction: Resecularization of Addiction in Contemporary Iran, A |
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