Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India
- Public Health;
- South Asia;
- Women/Gender
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Examined through a framework of access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and interpersonal relationships, 2000 IDRF Fellow Sarah Pinto follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district from a range of castes and communities to consider the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death. She reflects on the women’s ways of understanding birth and death, ways of coping with it, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book shows that the increasingly globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Buy from Amazon.
Published: Berghahn Books, 2008
ISBN: 978-1845453107
Citation: Pinto, Sarah K., Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008).
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