A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9354427960
ISBN-13
9789354427961
Publisher
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
Imprint
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 31st, 2024
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.40 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Women's health
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Through meticulous research, interviews, policies and advertisements, and oral narratives, the author highlights how the Sri Lankan state made use of women’s health, while at the same time silencing individual women’s unique bodily and medical experiences.
Sri Lanka became known as an apparent ‘success story’ in the initial two decades of its independence. Crucial to this image is women’s health, given its central importance to the indicators of decreasing population growth rate and decreasing mortality. However, how have individual women’s bodies fared within the twentieth-century Sri Lankan stories of development? In A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka Darshi Thoradeniya traces women’s health from the initial days of birth control and family planning, to development and population control, to militarisation and financialisation of women’s bodies. Questioning this ‘success story’, she shows how women’s bodies were used for the nation-building project of post-independence Sri Lanka.
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