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 | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The jail : managing the underclass in American society / / John Irwin ; with a new foreword by Jonathan Simon |
Autore | Irwin John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 365/.6/0979461 |
Soggetto topico |
Jails - Social aspects - California
Prisoners - California Prison psychology |
Soggetto non controllato |
alienation
american class system american jails american prison system american society arrested persons attorney big city jail class system convicted felons convicted criminal justice criminology discrimination human condition incarceration inequality inmates jail reform jails lock up mass incarceration poverty prison reform prison system prison prisons rabble class racism social control social science sociology underclass rabble united states of america |
ISBN | 0-520-95745-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Managing Rabble -- 2. Whols Arrested? -- 3. Disintegration -- 4. Disorientation -- 5. Degradation -- 6. Preparation -- 7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790429603321 |
Irwin John | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The jail : managing the underclass in American society / / John Irwin ; with a new foreword by Jonathan Simon |
Autore | Irwin John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 365/.6/0979461 |
Soggetto topico |
Jails - Social aspects - California
Prisoners - California Prison psychology |
Soggetto non controllato |
alienation
american class system american jails american prison system american society arrested persons attorney big city jail class system convicted felons convicted criminal justice criminology discrimination human condition incarceration inequality inmates jail reform jails lock up mass incarceration poverty prison reform prison system prison prisons rabble class racism social control social science sociology underclass rabble united states of america |
ISBN | 0-520-95745-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Managing Rabble -- 2. Whols Arrested? -- 3. Disintegration -- 4. Disorientation -- 5. Degradation -- 6. Preparation -- 7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814902203321 |
Irwin John | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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