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UNINA9910450046003321 |
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Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
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Birth on the threshold [[electronic resource] ] : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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1-282-76240-0 |
1-59734-499-0 |
9786612762406 |
0-520-93539-X |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Childbirth - India, South |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. |
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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. |
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Even childbirth is affected by globalization-and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices, emphasizing their critiques |
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of and aspirations for modern births today. In light of these stories, author Cecilia Van Hollen explores larger questions about how the structures of colonialism and postcolonial international and national development have helped to shape the form and meaning of birth for Indian women today. Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender-especially maternity-reconfigured as birth is transformed? |
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UNISA996575037703316 |
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2022 7th International Conference on Business and Industrial Research (ICBIR) / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Piscataway, New Jersey : , : IEEE, , 2022 |
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Business - Data processing |
Computer science |
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The 7th International Conference on Business and Industrial Research (ICBIR2022) is a multidisciplinary academic conference which includes research in science, engineering, informatics, modern business, social science and linguistics since 2010 ICBIR2022 will provide opportunities for the Researchers, Academicians, Industry persons and students to interact and exchange ideas, experience and expertise in the current trend and upcoming technologies Besides this, participants will have the opportunity to meet people with similar research interests which can lead to future research cooperation The need for a multidisciplinary conference is to make transdisciplinary collaboration among researchers from around the globe The areas of research covered by ICBIR are the most disruptive technologies currently undergoing a massive transformation This conference is planned as the offline conference to be conducted in the second quarter of 2022. |
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