Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Sreenivas (Engli

Description: Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Sreenivas 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 womens 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 FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Mytheli Sreenivas is associate professor of history and womens, gender, and sexuality studies at the Ohio State University and author of Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. Review "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." * New Books Network *"[T]his book is of vital importance to scholars of postcolonial states, modernisation, and population control." * Economic and Political Weekly *"[O]ffers a compelling view of colonial and postcolonial India, seen through the lens of the politics of reproduction." * Population and Development Review *"The thorough examination of a broad range of archival records backed by extensive engagement with critical theoretical frameworks makes the book a significant contribution to the scholarship on modern South Asia." * Asian Affairs *"Temporally, the book is a work situated in modern history, but its investigation of the concepts of "population" and "economy" make it a sharp commentary on the centrality of reproduction in global biopolitics today...What stands out in Sreenivass work is the animation with which the key actors of the period under study are brought to life." * H-Net Reviews *"Sreenivass book is an important contribution to a growing body of scholarly work that thinks seriously with the transnational politics of gender and sexuality to reimagine this critical period of late colonial and postcolonial development." * The Indian Economic and Social History Review *"Sreenivas meticulous research at the intersections of demographic history, gender/sexuality/sexology, and contraceptive politics offers a complex history of population, nation, and economy in India. It makes a timely contribution to nineteenth and twentieth-century South Asian history, reproductive and contraceptive histories of India, and colonial and postcolonial gender and sexuality studies." * South Asian Review *"As the world confronts climate catastrophe, and engages with questions of population, reproduction, and economy, Mytheli Sreenivas Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is an important and timely intervention. It sits alongside other important feminist interventions on population and development." * Pacific Affairs *"The book is highly relevant to scholars; researchers in sociology, population sciences, demographic, and development studies and other social sciences; and feminist activists. It offers a compelling view of colonial and postcolonial India, seen through the lens of the politics of reproduction and the need for population control and planned parenthood for the development of human beings." * Womens Reproductive Health * Promotional Calculating the cost of life in a transnational context Review Quote 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. Promotional "Headline" Calculating the cost of life in a transnational context Details ISBN0295748834 Author Mytheli Sreenivas Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0295748834 ISBN-13 9780295748832 Format Hardcover Pages 284 Imprint University of Washington Press Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-06-04 NZ Release Date 2021-06-04 US Release Date 2021-06-04 Publication Date 2021-06-04 UK Release Date 2021-06-04 Birth 1799 Death 1837 Affiliation San Jose State University, USA Position Author Qualifications CDA, BGS Illustrations 9 b&w illus. Publisher University of Washington Press Alternative 9780295748849 DEWEY 363.9/60954 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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