Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India /

Arguing that the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth", this text focuses on the birth experiences of lower-class women in Southern India and reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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