Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.
| Author/creator | Hodges, Sarah |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008. |
| Description | x, 170 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | History of medicine in context History of medicine in context. ^A518919 |
| Contents | Introduction : late colonial biopolitics -- Anxiety without action : contraception and the late colonial state -- The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism -- An apocalyptic body politics of modernity : contraception and the self respect movement -- Contraceptive commercialism -- Epilogue : the state of the population : history and fertility in twentieth-century Tamil Nadu. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007034436 |
| ISBN | 9780754638094 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 075463809X (alk. paper) |