Where there is no midwife : birth and loss in rural India
"In the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of b...
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ;
v. 10. |
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| Summary: | "In the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress."--Jacket. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-319) and index. |
| Published: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2008]
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| ISBN: | 9780857451538 0857451537 1845453107 9781845453107 |
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| Call Number: |
RG965.I4 P56 2008 |
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| RG965.I4 P56 2008 | Available Place a Hold |