Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520223594 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This is a beautifully written and well-organized book, combining theoretical insights and ethnographic detail. It represents an important contribution to medical anthropological scholarship on reproduction as well as to the theoretical debates on modernity and development."
Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender—especially maternity—reconfigured as birth is transformed?. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts.T