State Intimacies - Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India

Informationen zum Autor Eva Fiks is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at Keele University, United Kingdom. Her work on reproduction, biomedicine, care and the state in North India has been published in Ethnos , Medical Anthropology , Anthropology & Medicine , Anthropology Today and Medical Anthropology Quarterly . Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Fiks
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781805394648
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-464-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Birth control, contraception, family planning