Description
| Product ID: | 9781805394648 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories |
| Title: | State Intimacies |
| Subtitle: | Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India |
| Authors: | Author: Eva Fiks |
| Page Count: | 242 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Social and cultural anthropology, Birth control, contraception, family planning, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Birth control, contraception, family planning |
| Description: | The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-01 |
