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Title:

Borders of being : citizenship, fertility, and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xii, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Body, Human--Social aspects--Asia.
Body, Human--Social aspects--Oceania.
Sex role--Asia.
Sex role--Oceania.
Birth control--Government policy--Asia.
Birth control--Government policy--Oceania.
Women--Asia--Social conditions.
Women--Oceania--Social conditions.
Asia--Social life and customs.
Oceania--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Jolly, Margaret.
Ram, Kalpana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Infertile states: person and collectivity, region and nation in the rhetoric of Pacific population / Margaret Jolly. Government agency, women's agency: feminisms, fertility, and population control / Kathryn Robinson -- Her body and her being: of widows and abducted women in post-partition India / Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin -- Rationalizing fecund bodies: family planning policy and the modern Indian nation-state / Kalpana Ram -- Keep it in the family: government, marriage, and sex in contemporary China / Gary Sigley -- Doing God's work: citizenship, gender, and sexuality in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon. Fecundity and the fertility decline in Bali / Lynette Parker -- Empowerment or control? Northeast Thai women and family planning / Andrea Whittaker -- Mutual goals? Family planning on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Christine M. Dureau -- Infertile states: person and collectivity, region and nation in the rhetoric of Pacific population / Margaret Jolly.

ISBN:

9780472067558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472067559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472097555 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472097555 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44650769

LCCN:

00010459

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)