Author: Eminent Contributors
Editor(s): Mohan Rao
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 312
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186706704
Description
The International conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at Cairo brought about a paradigm shift in the way population is conceptualized. This involves going beyond maternal health and family planning, to the broader framework of reproductive health and rights. How has Indian fared with the paradigm shift? Is this about population control by other means? Is it about the social roots of illness, disease and death among women? This revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues-from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is the assisted reproduction industry, to the declining age of marriage among Muslim girls in Malabar. Winners of the Panos Reproductive Health Media Fellowship, these journalists reveal how issues in women’s health are deeply imbricated in the lives of Indian women.
Contents
CAIRO AND AFTER
Flip Flops on Population Policy
MOHAN RAO
State-of-the-Art Cycle Pumps
SREELATHA MENON
Selling the Parenthood Dream
SANDYA SRINIVASAN
Grass Windows of Bihar
DHIRENDRA K JHA
Women as Vectors
Health and the Rights of Sex Workers in India
GEETANJALI GANGOLI
Even If We Shout There is No One to Hear
Reproductive Health Issues among the Marginalized Population of Nagaland
RUPA CHINAI
The Silent Transition
Indian Women and Menopause
LYLA BAVADAM
The Gulf Wife Syndrome
K P M BASHEER
Safe Motherhood, Unsafe Deliveries
ANNU ANAND
For a Few Dollars More
Women in Export Processing Zones
T K RAJALAXMI
The Politics of silence
Introducing Sex Education in India
SWATI BHATTACHARJEE
Women and AIDS in India
Doubly Discriminated
VASANT BHOSALE
The Land of Vanishing girls
Sex Selective Abortion in Punjab
MANISHA BHALLA
Quick-fix Medical Ethics
Quinacrine Sterilization and the Ethics of Contraceptive Trials
RAJASHRI DASGUPTA
Contributors