Modern Maternities
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-35648-8 (ISBN)
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Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions about breastfeeding by memsahibs (European women), dais (indigenous midwives and/or wet nurses) and the bhadramahila (here the focus is on ‘respectable’ Bengali-Hindu women). With the help of archival resources, the author discusses themes like:
modernity, maternities and medicine
intersections of ‘race’, gender, class, caste, community and age in diet
artificial foods versus wet nursing
‘cleanliness’, corporeality and culture
‘clean midwifery’ versus ‘dirty midwifery’
customary breastfeeding practices
child-mothers and childcare
breastfeeding, mothercraft and modern clocks
exhibitions, baby shows and baby weeks
colonialism and anti-colonial nation-building
The book offers critical insights into social histories of medicine, motherhood and childcare in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Calcutta. It is intended for anyone interested in the book’s interdisciplinary focus on the regional, national and global resonances of childrearing advice. In particular, it will interest scholars and researchers from modern Indian history, global history, health history, medical anthropology, gender studies and South Asian studies.
Ranjana Saha is a postdoctoral teaching fellow (History Faculty) at the Manipal Centre for Humanities (MCH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Prior to joining MCH, she was a two-year postdoctoral research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. She completed her PhD from the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her research has been published in national and international journals such as The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Women’s Studies International Forum and South Asia Research.
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tropicana Milk
2 Dais, Midwifery and Wet Nursing
3 ‘Indian Mothers’ and Modern Childcare
4 Child-Mothers and Mother India
5 The Child Welfare Exhibition, 1920
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Tables, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-35648-0 / 1032356480 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-35648-8 / 9781032356488 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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