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Author:
Hodges, Sarah.
Title:
Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
x, 170 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Birth control--Madras--Madras--History.
Contraceptives--Madras--Madras--History.
Madras (India)--History.--History.
Contraception--history--India.
Colonialism--history--India.
Contraceptive Agents--history--India.
Family Planning Services--history--India.
History, 20th Century--India.
Population Characteristics--India.
Geschichte 1920-1940
Empfängnisverhütung.
Indien (Süd)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : late colonial biopolitics -- Anxiety without action : contraception and the late colonial state -- The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism -- An apocalyptic body politics of modernity : contraception and the self respect movement -- Contraceptive commercialism -- Epilogue : the state of the population : history and fertility in twentieth-century Tamil Nadu.
Series:
The history of medicine in context
ISBN:
075463809X (alk. paper)
9780754638094 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)167763999
LCCN:
2007034436
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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