Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India

摘要: Maps Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Prologue: Birth the Threshold Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics Colonial India: "Problem" Discourse 2. Maternal Child Health Services Postcolonial Era 3. Bangles Neem, Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies 5. Moving Targets: Routinization IUD Insertions Public Maternity Wards 6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during Postpartum Period Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," Resistance Epilogue Appendix I. Sample Questionnaires for Interviews II. Official Structure Maternal-Child Care Institutions Practitioners Nadu, 1995 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index