Maternities and modernities colonial and postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific

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Introduction: colonial and postcolonial plots in histories of maternities and modernities Margaret Jolly 1. Shaping reproduction: maternity in early twentieth-century Malaya Lenore Manderson 2. Modernizing the Malay mother Maila Stivens 3. 'Good wives and mothers' or 'dedicated workers'? Contradictions of domesticity in the 'mission of sisterhood', Travancore, south India Jane Haggis 4. Maternity and the story of enlightenment in the colonies: Tamil coastal women, south India Kalpana Ram 5. The dai and the doctor: discourses on women's reproductive health in rural Bangladesh Santi Rozario 6. Other mothers: maternal 'insouciance' and the depopulation debate in Fiji and Vanuatu, 1890-1930 Margaret Jolly 7. Just add water: remaking women through childbirth, Anganen, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea Leanne Merrett-Balkos 8. From sisters to wives: changing contexts of maternity on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands Christine Dureau Epilogue: maternal experience and feminist body politics: Asian and Pacific perspectives Kalpana Ram.

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