Mytheli Sreenivas
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
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In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas explores how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners aimed to reform reproduction to transform individual bodies and the body politic. She investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women's reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. The book suggests that Indian developments produced the grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world.
Format: Hardback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 04 June 2021
Publisher: University of Washington Press
In the late 19th century, India played a significant role in shaping global discussions on population and reproduction. Mytheli Sreenivas' book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, delves into how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, there was a consensus that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting population growth was crucial for economic development. This book explores the often devastating consequences of this logic, which demonized certain women's reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophes.
Sreenivas conducts an in-depth exploration of debates surrounding marriage, family, and contraception, while also demonstrating how concerns about reproduction emerged within various political contexts, such as poverty, crises of subsistence, migration, and claims of national sovereignty. By placing India at the center of transnational historical change, the book suggests that Indian developments laid the groundwork for questioning reproduction in the modern world.
The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is made freely available through the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries. The book's DOI is 10.6069/9780295748856.
Weight: 544g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780295748832
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