TY - BOOK AU - Van Hollen,Cecilia Coale ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India AV - RG530.3.I42 I583 2003eb U1 - 618.2/00954 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Childbirth KW - India, South KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10062291 ER -