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Croll, Gerhard

doi:10.7767/omz.1991.46.10.513

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“…Infant mortality, estimated between 30 and 50% at the time of liberation, fell to a single digit figure by the 1959. 90 But statistics on the grassroots penetration of state health workers conflict. One author, relying on state records from the fifties, found that "by 1957 the proportion of child births attended by trained health workers was estimated to have reached 60% or so in rural areas and 95% in large cities."…”

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Scissors, Surveys, And Psycho‐Prophylactics: Prenatal Health Care Campaigns And State Building In China, 1949–1954

Goldstein

1998

J Historical Sociology

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This paper examines how the Chinese state's prenatal health care campaigns of the early 1950s attempted to redefine women's social and political roles. The replacement of local midwifing practices with a uniform birthing method in order to radically reduce infant and mother mortality entailed complex ramifications regarding the relationship of women vis-à-vis the state. Campaigns involved demonizing "traditional" midwifing, promoting a stastical vision of female reproductivity and children as national resources, and the isolation of individual mothers as directly responsible to the state for managing reproduction for the national interest. In sum, a physiological definition of gender was used to open women's bodies to state management. Utopic visions of painless childbirth and of the socialist nation as a giant new family were used to promote participation in grassroots campaigns, but the sources also point to forms of local resistance to the micro-level reorganization of power these campaigns intended.

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Section: Conclusion: Pregnant Silencesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Scissors, Surveys, And Psycho‐Prophylactics: Prenatal Health Care Campaigns And State Building In China, 1949–1954

Goldstein

1998

J Historical Sociology

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Scissors, Surveys, And Psycho‐Prophylactics: Prenatal Health Care Campaigns And State Building In China, 1949–1954

Scissors, Surveys, And Psycho‐Prophylactics: Prenatal Health Care Campaigns And State Building In China, 1949–1954

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