4 décembre 2012
Fabrice Melka, « Debating Women’s Health: Reflections in Popular Hindi Print-culture in Colonial India, XIXth-XXth century », Femmes, genre, colonisations, ID : 10670/1.y8bc2n
This paper tries to delineate the intervention of ‘educated section’ of colonial India with western medicine, scientific knowledge about reproduction, reproductive organs and mechanical means of contraception the manner in which it was discussed in the public sphere. In this context this study explores the way women have been represented, shown or projected in the twentieth century in popular Hindi print culture. It further shows how scientific knowledge about reproduction was invoked in publ...