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Where There Is No Midwife - Birth and Loss in Rural India (Hardcover)
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Where There Is No Midwife - Birth and Loss in Rural India (Hardcover)
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
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By following the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district
of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant
mortality, where maternal health services are poor while family
planning efforts are intensive, from a range of castes and
communities, 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 access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic
spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household
and neighborly relations. 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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