Birth and Birthgivers
Author: Janet Chawla
Publisher: Har-Anand Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 1280
ISBN-13: 9788124109380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents waried essays exploring women's voices, agencies and aesthetics in the traditional handling of chilbearing. Ayurveda as it comprehends reproduction, sohars (birth songs), birth narratives cord-cutters, dais' knowledge and compensation systems, as well as analyses of biomedical dominance and erasure of indigenous knowledge all provide a peek bechind the purdah in this critical reclamation of tradition.