TY - GEN AU - Van Hollen,Cecilia Coale TI - Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - India, South KW - Childbirth N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index; 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb09215 ER -