Understanding women's health issues : a reader / edited by Lakshmi Lingam.
With special reference to India.
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| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Kali for Women,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 228 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Demographic approach to women's health / Malini Karkal
- Intra-household distribution of health goods and services : a review of relevant literature
- Domestic air pollution / Anil Agarwal
- The occupational health issues of women workers in the informal sector / Lakshmi Lingam
- The body as metaphor / Veena Das
- Belief system in food among the Telugu-speaking people of Telengana / Indira Mahadevan
- Programming reproduction? : maternal health services / Manisha Gupte
- From dais to doctors : the medicalisation of childbirth in Colonial India / Supriya Guha
- Family planning and the reproductive rights of women / Malini Karkal
- Insights into women's health : field notes of a hospital social worker / Paromita Goswami
- Reproductive technologies and the violation of women's bodies / Lakshmi Lingam
- Sex detection tests and female foeticide : discrimination before birth / Lakshmi Lingam
- Banning pre-natal sex determination : the scope and the limits of the Maharashtra legislation / Amar Jesani.