Introduction: colonial and postcolonial plots in histories of maternities
and modernities Margaret Jolly; 1. Shaping reproduction: maternity in early
twentieth-century Malaya Lenore Manderson; 2. Modernizing the Malay mother
Maila Stivens; 3. 'Good wives and mothers' or 'dedicated workers'?
Contradictions of domesticity in the 'mission of sisterhood', Travancore,
south India Jane Haggis; 4. Maternity and the story of enlightenment in the
colonies: Tamil coastal women, south India Kalpana Ram; 5. The dai and the
doctor: discourses on women's reproductive health in rural Bangladesh Santi
Rozario; 6. Other mothers: maternal 'insouciance' and the depopulation
debate in Fiji and Vanuatu, 1890-1930 Margaret Jolly; 7. Just add water:
remaking women through childbirth, Anganen, Southern Highlands, Papua New
Guinea Leanne Merrett-Balkos; 8. From sisters to wives: changing contexts
of maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands Christine Dureau; Epilogue:
maternal experience and feminist body politics: Asian and Pacific
perspectives Kalpana Ram.
