LEADER 03519nam 22006254a 450 001 9910450046003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-76240-0 010 $a1-59734-499-0 010 $a9786612762406 010 $a0-520-93539-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520935396 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000980 035 $a(EBL)227282 035 $a(OCoLC)475933433 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112636 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129200 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112636 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10087535 035 $a(PQKB)10390883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227282 035 $a(DE-B1597)518718 035 $a(OCoLC)1089433387 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520935396 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062291 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276240 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000980 100 $a20030213d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBirth on the threshold$b[electronic resource] $echildbirth and modernity in South India /$fCecilia Van Hollen 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22358-6 311 $a0-520-22359-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aEven 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 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? 606 $aChildbirth$zIndia, South 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChildbirth 676 $a618.2/00954 700 $aVan Hollen$b Cecilia Coale$01040719 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450046003321 996 $aBirth on the threshold$92463810 997 $aUNINA