Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, experiences of maternity. This volume shows 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 in Asia and the Pacific, revealing how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, colonial policies, and the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods. They raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.
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Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, experiences of maternity. The present volume aims 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 in Asia and the Pacific, revealing how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, colonial policies, and the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods. They raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.
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Over the past decade, the literature on maternity and motherhood has expanded dramatically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
delivery hut, colonizing women, provincial council meeting, indigenous midwives, government midwife, coastal women, birth pollution, birthing women, birthing woman, missionary women, birthing mother, female corporeality, village midwives, lady missionaries, birthing practices, missionary wives, missionary texts, native agency, colonized women, gendered modes, missionary wife, lady missionary, maternal guilt, maternal experience, lazy native Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New York, Papua New Guinea, Kuala Lumpur, Tamil Nadu, University of California Press, Solomon Islands, Third World, Oxford University Press, Straits Settlements, Indian Sociology, Indiana University Press, New Delhi, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Decrease Report, South Asian, Negeri Sembilan, Shamima Islam, Colo West, Colonial Office, Kanyakumari District, Lenore Manderson, Penguin Books New!
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Over the past decade, the literature on maternity and motherhood has expanded dramatically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
delivery hut, colonizing women, provincial council meeting, indigenous midwives, government midwife, coastal women, birth pollution, birthing women, birthing woman, missionary women, birthing mother, female corporeality, village midwives, lady missionaries, birthing practices, missionary wives, missionary texts, native agency, colonized women, gendered modes, missionary wife, lady missionary, maternal guilt, maternal experience, lazy native Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New York, Papua New Guinea, Kuala Lumpur, Tamil Nadu, University of California Press, Solomon Islands, Third World, Oxford University Press, Straits Settlements, Indian Sociology, Indiana University Press, New Delhi, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Decrease Report, South Asian, Negeri Sembilan, Shamima Islam, Colo West, Colonial Office, Kanyakumari District, Lenore Manderson, Penguin Books New!
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- Of Woman Born - Motherhood As Experience And Institution by Adrienne Rich on 4 pages
- Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich in Front Matter, page 79, and Back Matter
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- Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania by Denise Roth Allen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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