03244nam 2200493 450 991048201030332120220505214505.00-295-74885-0(CKB)5590000000487346(MiAaPQ)EBC6706346(Au-PeEL)EBL6706346(OCoLC)1228178539(MdBmJHUP)musev2_93981(EXLCZ)99559000000048734620220505d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReproductive politics and the making of modern India /Mytheli SreenivasSeattle :University of Washington Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (285 pages)0-295-74883-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Economies of Reproduction in an Age of Empire -- 2. Fertility, Sovereignty, and the Global Color Line -- 3. Feminism, National Development, and Transnational Family Planning -- 4. Regulating Reproduction in the Era of the Planetary "Population Bomb" -- 5. Heterosexuality and the Happy Family -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women's reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions-about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world"--Provided by publisher.Reproductive rightsIndiaHistory19th centuryFamiliesIndiaHistory19th centuryMarriageIndiaHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Reproductive rightsHistoryFamiliesHistoryMarriageHistory363.960954Sreenivas Mytheli942490MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910482010303321Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India2126847UNINA