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Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947
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Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947 / Sanjam Ahluwalia.
ISBN
9780252032400 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252032403 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252074806 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252074807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 251 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-240) and index.
Contents
Demographic rhetoric and sexual surveillance : Indian middle-class advocates of birth control, 1877-1947
Global agenda and local politics : western advocates and discourse of birth control in colonial India, 1920s-40s
Polyvocality, ambivalence, and negotiations : Indian middle-class feminism and debates on birth control in nationalist India, 1920s-40s
A fractured discourse : colonial attitudes on birth control in the twentieth century
Untrained "professionals" : medical practitioners and the politics of birth control in colonial India, 1920-47.
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