An integrated analysis of detailed ethnography and large‐scale survey data is presented to
explore the gendered influences on women's uptake of antenatal care (ANC) services in …

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality,
maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following …

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive
health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state …

Reproductive health is concerned with the people's ability to have a satisfying and safe sex
life ensuring their capability to reproduce with a liberty of decision that if, when and how …

In this article I focus on the connections between poor women's migration to a basti in Jaipur
city in north-west India and their reproductive anxieties, agency and outcomes. I suggest …

In a country of more than one billion people, with 20 odd principal languages, about 225
dialects, and at least two principal religions, it is difficult to say anything about a …

This thesis lies at the nexus of recent transitions towards medicalised childbirth,
marketisation of maternal health services and moralities of care, examining how women …

In this chapter I focus on a notion of reproductive entitlement based on women's moral
claims in the area of reproduction and the healthcare related to this, claims which are largely …

As we know from the insights of significant recent work into the subject, medical
technologies do not function in a moral, cultural or political vacuum. Their use is shaped by …

The identity of women cannot be seen in isolation but as one that exists along with other
constituents that intersect with class, race, sexuality and caste. Being a woman, a person is …