Where There Is No Midwife. Sarah Pinto

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Название: Where There Is No Midwife

Автор: Sarah Pinto

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Культурология

Серия: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

isbn: 9780857450333

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

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.