Kalpana Ram / Margaret Jolly (eds.)

Maternities and Modernities

Herausgeber: Jolly, Margaret; Ram, Kalpana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging, comparative study of concepts of motherhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780521584289
• ISBN-10: 0521584280
• Artikelnr.: 35456964

Inhaltsangabe

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.