The cultural politics of reproduction : migration, health and family making / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.198/40086912 |
Soggetto topico |
Women immigrants
Motherhood Family planning Immigrants - Health and hygiene |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-78238-545-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health; Chapter 1 - Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births; Chapter 2 - To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal; Chapter 3 - 'Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere'; Chapter 4 - 'That's Not a Religious Thing, That's a Cultural Thing'; Chapter 5 - Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place; Chapter 6 - Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers
Chapter 7 - 'A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good'Chapter 8 - 'A City Walla Prefers a Small Family'; Chapter 9 - Restoring the Connection; Notes on Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460152503321 |
New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The cultural politics of reproduction : migration, health and family making / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 362.198/40086912 |
Soggetto topico |
Women immigrants
Motherhood Family planning Immigrants - Health and hygiene Childfree choice Migrant labor Culture |
ISBN | 1-78238-545-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Chapter 2 To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Chapter 3 ‘Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Chapter 4 ‘That’s Not a Religious Thing, That’s a Cultural Thing’ Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India -- Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine -- Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787143203321 |
New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The cultural politics of reproduction : migration, health and family making / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 362.198/40086912 |
Soggetto topico |
Women immigrants
Motherhood Family planning Immigrants - Health and hygiene Childfree choice Migrant labor Culture |
ISBN | 1-78238-545-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Chapter 2 To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Chapter 3 ‘Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Chapter 4 ‘That’s Not a Religious Thing, That’s a Cultural Thing’ Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India -- Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine -- Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825877603321 |
New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fatness and the maternal body [[electronic resource] ] : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.196/3980082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Unnithan-KumarMaya <1961->
TremayneSoraya |
Collana | Fertility, reproduction and sexuality |
Soggetto topico |
Obesity in women
Women - Physiology Body image in women Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-85745-123-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fatness and the Maternal Body; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature'; Chapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves; Chapter 4. Women of Great Weight; Chapter 5. Childbearing, Breastfeeding and Body Weight in Tanzania; Chapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle'; Chapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body; Chapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise; Chapter 9. The Maharaja Mac; Chapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health?; Chapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities; Notes on Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461401603321 |
New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fatness and the maternal body [[electronic resource] ] : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.196/3980082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Unnithan-KumarMaya <1961->
TremayneSoraya |
Collana | Fertility, reproduction and sexuality |
Soggetto topico |
Obesity in women
Women - Physiology Body image in women Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
ISBN | 0-85745-123-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fatness and the Maternal Body; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature'; Chapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves; Chapter 4. Women of Great Weight; Chapter 5. Childbearing, Breastfeeding and Body Weight in Tanzania; Chapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle'; Chapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body; Chapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise; Chapter 9. The Maharaja Mac; Chapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health?; Chapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities; Notes on Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789761103321 |
New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fatness and the maternal body : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.196/3980082 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Unnithan-KumarMaya <1961->
TremayneSoraya |
Collana | Fertility, reproduction and sexuality |
Soggetto topico |
Obesity in women
Women - Physiology Body image in women Human body - Social aspects Human body - Symbolic aspects |
ISBN | 0-85745-123-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Fatness and the Maternal Body; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature'; Chapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves; Chapter 4. Women of Great Weight; Chapter 5. Childbearing, Breastfeeding and Body Weight in Tanzania; Chapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle'; Chapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body; Chapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise; Chapter 9. The Maharaja Mac; Chapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health?; Chapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities; Notes on Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819249203321 |
New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reproductive agency, medicine and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar |
Edizione | [1st pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Collana | Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality |
Soggetto topico |
Human reproductive technology - Social aspects
Human reproductive technology - Government policy Human reproductive technology - Public opinion Childbirth - Social aspects Fertility, Human - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-57181-648-8
1-84545-044-2 1-78238-862-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Attitudes to genetic diagnosis and to the use of medical technologies in pregnancy: some British Pakistani perspectives / Alison Shaw -- Localising a brave new world: new reproductive technologies and the politics of fertility in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson -- Conception technologies, local healers and negotiations around childbearing in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Programmes of gamete donation: strategies in (private) clinics of assisted conception / Monica M.E. Bonaccorse -- Women, doctors and pain / William Stones -- Labour, privatisation, and class: middle-class women's experience of changing hospital births in Calcutta / Henrike Donner -- In search of closure for Quinacrine: science and politics in contexts of uncertainty and inequality / Asha George -- 'She has a tender body': postpartum morbidity and care during Bananthana in rural South India / Asha Kilaru, ...[et al.] -- 'And never the twain shall meet': reproductive health policies in the Islamic republic of Iran / Soraya Tremayne -- Women in fertility studies and In Situ / Tulsi Patel -- Heteronomous women? hidden assumptions in the demography of women / Sumi Madhok. |
Altri titoli varianti | Cultural transformations in childbearing |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248309103316 |
New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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