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Maternities and Modernities

Kalpana Ram, Margaret Jolly
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      Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relationships between motherhood as embodied experience and the local discourses on maternity. They show how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, by colonial policies and by the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods, and raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kalpana Ram, Margaret Jolly EAN: 9780521586146 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-02-26 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Global South / Developing countries, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology

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      Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relationships between motherhood as embodied experience and the local discourses on maternity. They show how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, by colonial policies and by the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods, and raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kalpana Ram, Margaret Jolly EAN: 9780521586146 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-02-26 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Global South / Developing countries, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology

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