Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. <br/><br/>
Birth on the threshold  childbirth and modernity in South India /  [electronic resource] : 
Cecilia Van Hollen. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2003. 
 - xv, 295 p. :  maps ;  23 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. 
<br/><br/>The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: the problem 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb09215  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--India, South.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Childbirth