Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.

Author/creator Hodges, Sarah
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 170 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHistory 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165) and index.
LCCN 2007034436
ISBN9780754638094 (alk. paper)
ISBN075463809X (alk. paper)