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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
