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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. Birth on the threshold. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606999540 Online version: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. Birth on the threshold. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003 (OCoLC)625954585 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cecilia Coale Van Hollen |
| ISBN: | 0520223586 9780520223585 0520223594 9780520223592 |
| OCLC Number: | 51728687 |
| Description: | xv, 295 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Cecilia Van Hollen. |
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