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Communicating Contraception: Social Science and the Politics of Population Control in Cold War India

Description:

This dissertation analyzes archival materials to examine the relationship between reproductive governance in India and the political and scientific dynamics of the Cold War. In 1952, India became the first country to institute anti-natalist population control as a national policy goal, concentrating its efforts on female sterilization and the building...

Keyword:

Science and technology, Reproductive governance, Gender, Family planning, Population control, and India

Subject:

Sociology

Creator:

Savina Balasubramanian

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/21/2019

Date Modified:

10/21/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation