Reproductive Politics And The Making Of Modern India

Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748856

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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Sreenivas Pdf

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.

Author : Maya Unnithan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429878763

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Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics by Maya Unnithan Pdf

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of a vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realised. A compelling analysis, this book offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights. It draws together the practices, experiences and discourse on fertility and reproduction (childbirth, infertility, loss) in Northern India into an overarching analytical framework on power and gender politics. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, gender studies, human rights and sociolegal studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Sunil K. Khanna
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385455

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The Cultural Politics of Reproduction by Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Sunil K. Khanna Pdf

Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and “cultures of health” travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.

Author : Lilly Irani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691175140

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Chasing Innovation by Lilly Irani Pdf

A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promise Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of "entrepreneurial citizenship" in India over the past seventy years, demonstrating how a global ethos of development through design has come to shape state policy, economic investment, and the middle class in one of the world’s fastest-growing nations. Drawing on her own professional experience as a Silicon Valley designer and nearly a decade of fieldwork following a Delhi design studio, Irani vividly chronicles the practices and mindsets that hold up professional design as the answer to the challenges of a country of more than one billion people, most of whom are poor. While discussions of entrepreneurial citizenship promise that Indian children can grow up to lead a nation aspiring to uplift the poor, in reality, social, economic, and political structures constrain whose enterprise, which hopes, and which needs can be seen as worthy of investment. In the process, Irani warns, powerful investors, philanthropies, and companies exploit citizens' social relations, empathy, and political hope in the quest to generate economic value. Irani argues that the move to recast social change as innovation, with innovators as heroes, frames others—craftspeople, workers, and activists—as of lower value, or even dangers to entrepreneurial forms of development. With meticulous historical context and compelling stories, Chasing Innovation lays bare how long-standing power hierarchies such as class, caste, language, and colonialism continue to shape opportunity in a world where good ideas supposedly rule all.

Author : Ishita Pande
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489744

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Sex, Law and the Politics of Age by Ishita Pande Pdf

An innovative study of the establishment of 'age' as a political category in late colonial India.

Author : Masae Kato
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053567937

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Women's Rights? by Masae Kato Pdf

This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'.

Author : Marcia Claire Inhorn,Frank van Balen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0520231082

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Infertility Around the Globe by Marcia Claire Inhorn,Frank van Balen Pdf

These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.

Author : Craig Jeffrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198769347

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Modern India by Craig Jeffrey Pdf

India has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet many people know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? In what ways is education transforming society? And how is India's culture industry responding to technological change? In this "Very Short Introduction", Craig Jeffrey provides a compelling account of the recent history of India, investigating the contradictions that are plaguing modern India and the manner in which people, especially young people, are actively remaking the country in the twenty first century. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Hilal Alkan,Ayse Dayi,Sezin Topçu,Betül Yarar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755617418

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The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey by Hilal Alkan,Ayse Dayi,Sezin Topçu,Betül Yarar Pdf

In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.

Author : Asha Nadkarni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452941424

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Eugenic Feminism by Asha Nadkarni Pdf

Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic project—sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United States and India, Nadkarni shows how the exclusionary impulse of eugenics is embedded within the terms of nationalist feminism. Nadkarni reveals connections between U.S. and Indian nationalist feminisms from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, demonstrating that both call for feminist citizenship centered on the reproductive body as the origin of the nation. She juxtaposes U.S. and Indian feminists (and antifeminists) in provocative and productive ways: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novels regard eugenic reproduction as a vital form of national production; Sarojini Naidu’s political speeches and poetry posit liberated Indian women as active agents of a nationalist and feminist modernity predating that of the West; and Katherine Mayo’s 1927 Mother India warns white U.S. women that Indian reproduction is a “world menace.” In addition, Nadkarni traces the refashioning of the icon Mother India, first in Mehboob Khan’s 1957 film Mother India and Kamala Markandaya’s 1954 novel Nectar in a Sieve, and later in Indira Gandhi’s self-fashioning as Mother India during the Emergency from 1975 to 1977. By uncovering an understudied history of feminist interactivity between the United States and India, Eugenic Feminism brings new depth both to our understanding of the complicated relationship between the two nations and to contemporary feminism.

Author : Chinnaiah Jangam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199477779

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Dalits and the Making of Modern India by Chinnaiah Jangam Pdf

"The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and brings to the fore the unacknowledged contributions of Dalits towards the collective imagination of [the] nation of India. By using colonial archives, Telugu Dalit writings, and their political activities, this book presents a Dalit perspective on nationalism.

Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780253351180

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Wives, Widows, and Concubines by Mytheli Sreenivas Pdf

Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

Author : Myrna Perez Sheldon,Ahmed Ragab,Terence Keel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231556545

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Critical Approaches to Science and Religion by Myrna Perez Sheldon,Ahmed Ragab,Terence Keel Pdf

Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.

Author : Aya Homei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009186834

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Science for Governing Japan's Population by Aya Homei Pdf

A major new study tracing historical roots of the interplay between policy, population and science in Japan from the 1860s-1950s.