Infertility in a Crowded Country
eBook - ePub

Infertility in a Crowded Country

Hiding Reproduction in India

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Infertility in a Crowded Country

Hiding Reproduction in India

About this book

In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, the stigmas and colonial legacies surrounding sexual propriety and population growth affect how Muslim women, often in poverty, cope with infertility.

In Infertility in a Crowded Country, Holly Donahue Singh draws on interviews, observation, and autoethnographic perspectives in local communities and Lucknow's infertility clinics to examine access to technology and treatments and to explore how pop culture shapes the reproductive paths of women and their supporters through clinical spaces, health camps, religious sites, and adoption agencies. Donahue Singh finds that women are willing to transgress social and religious boundaries to seek healing.

By focusing on interpersonal connections, Infertility in a Crowded Country provides a fascinating starting point for discussions of family, kinship, and gender; the global politics of reproduction and reproductive technologies; and ideologies and social practices around creating families.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Transliteration
  8. Introduction: Hiding Reproduction
  9. 1. Aulad: Reproductive Desires
  10. 2. Preludes to Aulad: Making Mothers
  11. 3. Clinical Dreams: Measuring Hope
  12. 4. Reproductive Realities: Managing Inequality
  13. 5. Quietly Planning Families: Misdirecting Convention
  14. Conclusion: Reproductive Openings and Reproductive Justice in Contemporary India
  15. Afterword: Family Plans, Or, Waiting for Aulad
  16. Glossary
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Author