Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugeni...
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| description | Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe.
To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world.
The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1128292025-03-21T06:58:33Z Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India Sreenivas, Mytheli Women's studies, South Asian History, India, Reproduction, Population, Population Control, Feminism, Birth Control, Women’s History, Gender and Sexuality Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries. DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 2023-08-17T04:23:38Z 2023-08-17T04:23:38Z 2023-08-16T08:30:52Z 2021 book OCN: 1228178539 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75536 9780295748832 9780295748849 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112829 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75536/1/9780295748856.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75536/1/9780295748856.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75536/1/9780295748856.pdf University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295748856 10.6069/9780295748856 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 Ohio State University Press 1bfe1db2-be7a-4c9c-a66d-10f328738e86 9780295748832 9780295748849 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 285 Seattle TOME open access |
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