Maternities and modernities : colonial and postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly.
| Call Number | 306.874/3/095 |
| Title | Maternities and modernities : colonial and postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly. Maternities & Modernities |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction : colonial and postcolonial plots in histories of maternities and modernities / Shaping reproduction : maternity in early twentieth-century Malaya / Modernizing the Malay mother / "Good wives and mothers" or "dedicated workers"? : contradictions of domesticity in the "mission of sisterhood", Travancore, south India / Maternity and the story of enlightenment in the colonies : Tamil coastal women, south India / Dai and the doctor : discourses on women's reproductive health in rural Bangladesh / Other mothers : maternal "insouciance" and the depopulation debate in Fiji and Vanuatu, 1890-1930 / Just add water : remaking women through childbirth, Anganen, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / From sisters to wives : changing contexts of maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Epilogue : maternal experience and feminist body politics : Asian and Pacific perspectives / |
| Summary | Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 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. |
| Added Author | Ram, Kalpana, editor. Jolly, Margaret, editor. |
| Subject | Motherhood Asia. Motherhood Pacific Area. Mothers Asia. Mothers Pacific Area. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction : colonial and postcolonial plots in histories of maternities and modernities / Shaping reproduction : maternity in early twentieth-century Malaya / Modernizing the Malay mother / "Good wives and mothers" or "dedicated workers"? : contradictions of domesticity in the "mission of sisterhood", Travancore, south India / Maternity and the story of enlightenment in the colonies : Tamil coastal women, south India / Dai and the doctor : discourses on women's reproductive health in rural Bangladesh / Other mothers : maternal "insouciance" and the depopulation debate in Fiji and Vanuatu, 1890-1930 / Just add water : remaking women through childbirth, Anganen, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / From sisters to wives : changing contexts of maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Epilogue : maternal experience and feminist body politics : Asian and Pacific perspectives / |
| Subject | Motherhood Asia. Motherhood Pacific Area. Mothers Asia. Mothers Pacific Area. |
| Multimedia |