Cecilia Van Hollen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

• Maps Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Prologue: Birth on the Threshold Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse 2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era 3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth 5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards 6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance Epilogue Appendix I. Sample Questionnaires for Interviews Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Cecilia Van Hollen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

• Maps Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Prologue: Birth on the Threshold Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse 2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era 3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth 5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards 6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance Epilogue Appendix I. Sample Questionnaires for Interviews Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Cecilia Van Hollen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

• Maps Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Prologue: Birth on the Threshold Introduction: Childbirth and Modernity in Tamil Nadu 1. The Professionalization of Obstetrics in Colonial India: The "Problem" of Childbirth in Colonial Discourse 2. Maternal and Child Health Services in the Postcolonial Era 3. Bangles of Neem, Bangles of Gold: Pregnant Women as Auspicious Burdens 4. Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Birth 5. Moving Targets: The Routinization of IUD Insertions in Public Maternity Wards 6. "Baby Friendly" Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development during the Postpartum Period Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "Choices," and Resistance Epilogue Appendix I. Sample Questionnaires for Interviews Appendix II. Official Structure of Maternal-Child Health Care Institutions and Practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index