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BL
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1000096
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b754466
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Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale
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| Title & Author
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Birth on the threshold : : childbirth and modernity in South India /\ Cecilia Van Hollen.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) :: map
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| ISBN
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052093539X
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: 1282762400
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: 1597344990
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: 6612762403
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: 9780520935396
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: 9781282762404
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: 9781597344999
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: 9786612762406
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0520223586
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0520223594
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9780520223585
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9780520223592
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Arguing that the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth", this text focuses on the birth experiences of lower-class women in Southern India and reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts.
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Childbirth-- India, South.
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Childbirth.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Pregnancy Childbirth.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Maternal Health Services-- India.
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Labor, Obstetric-- ethnology-- India.
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Women's Health-- India.
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South India.
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| Dewey Classification
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618.2/00954
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| LC Classification
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RG530.3.I42I583 2003eb
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2003 M-384
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WA 310V217ba 2003
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