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Where there is no midwife: birth and loss in rural India

By Sarah Pinto

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780857451538, 9781845453107, 9780857450333
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
64 MB (67492488 bytes)
Series
ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Pages
342\342
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 02:47:48

Description

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.

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