The Unheard Scream : Reproductive Health and Women\'s Lives in India

Contents: 1. Cairo and after : Flip flops on population policy/Mohan Rao. 2. State-of-the-art cycle pumps/Sreelatha Menon. 3. Selling the parenthood dream/Sandhya Srinivasan. 4. Grass widows of Bihar/Dhirendra K. Jha. 5. Women as vectors : Health and the rights of sex workers in India/Geetanjali Gangoli. 6. Even if we shout there is no one to hear : Reproductive health issues among the marginalized population of Nagaland/Rupa Chinai. 7. The silent transition : Indian women and menopause/Lyla Bavadam. 8. The Gulf wife syndrome/K. P. M. Basheer. 9. Safe motherhood, unsafe deliveries/Annu Anand. 10. For a few dollars more : Women in export processing zones/T.K. Rajalaxmi. 11. The politics of silence : Introducing sex education in India/Swati Bhattacharjee. 12. Women and AIDS in India : Doubly discriminated/Vasant Bhosale. 13. The land of vanishing girls : Sex selective abortion in Punjab/Manisha Bhalla. 14. Quick-fix medical ethics : Quinacrine sterilization and the ethics of contraceptive trials/Rajashri Dasgupta. Contributors.

"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 India 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." (jacket)