"I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore": Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India.
Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan, India, I examine women's narratives of chronic reproductive suffering and the practices they employed to relieve it. Cumulative effects of adverse and ordinary reproductive events and exhaustion from caregiving were often seen as rep...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 312 - 329 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2022
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