Birth on the threshold [[electronic resource] ] : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
Autore | Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 618.2/00954 |
Soggetto topico | Childbirth - India, South |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-76240-0
1-59734-499-0 9786612762406 0-520-93539-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450046003321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
Autore | Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 618.2/00954 |
Soggetto topico | Childbirth - India, South |
Soggetto non controllato |
biomedical
birth rate birth stories childbirth class system classism colonialism contemporary ethnographers ethnography feminism feminist gender studies gender global globalization home birth hospital birth india international lower class maternity medical technology midwifery midwives modern world national parenting postcolonial pregnancy south india tamil nadu technology |
ISBN |
1-282-76240-0
1-59734-499-0 9786612762406 0-520-93539-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777396703321 |
Van Hollen Cecilia Coale
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
Autore | Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 618.2/00954 |
Soggetto topico | Childbirth - India, South |
ISBN |
1-282-76240-0
1-59734-499-0 9786612762406 0-520-93539-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823927703321 |
Van Hollen Cecilia Coale
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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