This critical, compassionate, and sensitive ethnographic description of womens reproductive lives in an area shaped by poverty and medico-political intervention is of relevance to medical and political anthropology scholars, as well as for scholars working on gender and reproduction and on South Asia at large. The author has successfully managed to condense data and insights based on her fieldwork from a previous decade into a convincing and relevant volume that also benefits from both hindsight and recent scholarly debates. Asian Ethnology
Sterilization camps have earned a bad press in India and rightly so. Yet, as Eva Fiks demonstrates in her elegant intervention, coercion is entangled with care for village women contending with the reproductive chronicity that is integral to their daily lives. Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita, University of Edinburgh
The book draws on detailed ethnographic research and is rich with empirical details that are framed within larger debates on womens health, care, and state formation. The introduction immediately draws in the reader. It is a well-written and well-researched book. Lipika Kamra, Jindal Global University
