Modern Maternities

Auteur

Ranjana Saha is a postdoctoral teaching fellow (History Faculty) at the Manipal Centre for Humanities (MCH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. Prior to joining MCH, she was a two-year postdoctoral research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. She completed her PhD from the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her research has been published in national and international journals such as The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Women's Studies International Forum and South Asia Research.

Texte du rabat

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta medical advice on breastfeeding in colonial Calcutta.

Contenu

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Tropicana Milk

2 Dais, Midwifery and Wet Nursing

3 'Indian Mothers' and Modern Childcare

4 Child-Mothers and Mother India

5 The Child Welfare Exhibition, 1920

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index