TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saha, Ranjana, 
TI  - Modern maternities : : medical advice about breastfeeding in colonial Calcutta 
SN  - 9781032768243
U1  - 649.330954147 SAH 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Breastfeeding
KW  - History
KW  - Kolkata
KW  - India
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - 19th century.
KW  - Maternal health services
KW  - Midwifery
N1  - Includes bibliographical references.
N2  - "Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinion about breastfeeding by memsahibs (European women), dais (indigenous midwives and/or wet nurses) and the bhadramahila (here the focus is on 'respectable' Bengali-Hindu women). With the help of archival resources, the author discusses themes like modernity, maternities and medicine intersections of 'race', gender, class, caste, community, and age in diet artificial foods versus wet nursing 'cleanliness', corporeality and culture 'clean midwifery' versus 'dirty midwifery' customary breastfeeding practices child-mothers and childcare breastfeeding, mothercraft and modern clocks exhibitions, baby shows and baby weeks colonialism and anti-colonial nation-building The book offers critical insights into social histories of medicine, motherhood and childcare in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Calcutta. It is intended for anyone interested in the book's interdisciplinary focus on the regional, national and global resonances of childrearing advice. In particular, it will interest scholars and researchers from modern Indian history, global history, health history, medical anthropology, gender studies, and South Asian studies"-- $cProvided by publisher.

ER  -