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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Maternities and Modernities
• Subtitle: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
• Author: Kalpana RamMargaret Jolly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780521584289
• ISBN: 0521584280
• ID: 02036256
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 63 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 156 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. February 1998

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