This dissertation analyzes sex-selective abortion in western India as a lived process with profound cultural, ethical, and demographic implications. Over the past three decades, selective elimination of female fetuses has emerged as a disturbing form of family planning across parts of Europe and Asia. In India, the practice remains widespread despite extensive efforts to combat it, with drastically skewed girl-to-boy ratios resulting in many locales. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with families and clinicians practicing sex selection, as well as with government officials and activists attempting to regulate it, this dissertation examines how prenatal sex determination marks fetuses with gender and incorporates them int...
Sex-selective abortion is a practice involving the prenatal preference of males over females. Prior ...
"This paper examines the introduction, spread and impact of amniocentesis (and more recently other s...
CONTEXT: A cultural preference for sons may be a factor driving recourse to abortion in India, as wo...
This dissertation analyzes sex-selective abortion in western India as a lived process with profound ...
This dissertation analyzes sex-selective abortion in western India as a lived process with profound ...
This dissertation seeks to understand the full context within which sex-selective abortion (SSA) occ...
a b s t r a c t In response to concerns from feminists, demographers, bioethicists, journalists, and...
AbstractBackgroundSex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 b...
Background: Sex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 boys). ...
The report explores the prevalence of sex-selective abortion in India and its main causes. These inc...
This thesis deals with the cultural and political underpinnings of female infanticide and sex selec...
This article focuses on a controversy over the use of amniocentesis and other methods for sex determ...
There is an emerging global discourse on female selective abortion (FSA) as several Asian countries ...
AbstractBackgroundSex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 b...
This dissertation deals with the widespread problem in India of using sex selective abortions to dis...
Sex-selective abortion is a practice involving the prenatal preference of males over females. Prior ...
"This paper examines the introduction, spread and impact of amniocentesis (and more recently other s...
CONTEXT: A cultural preference for sons may be a factor driving recourse to abortion in India, as wo...
This dissertation analyzes sex-selective abortion in western India as a lived process with profound ...
This dissertation analyzes sex-selective abortion in western India as a lived process with profound ...
This dissertation seeks to understand the full context within which sex-selective abortion (SSA) occ...
a b s t r a c t In response to concerns from feminists, demographers, bioethicists, journalists, and...
AbstractBackgroundSex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 b...
Background: Sex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 boys). ...
The report explores the prevalence of sex-selective abortion in India and its main causes. These inc...
This thesis deals with the cultural and political underpinnings of female infanticide and sex selec...
This article focuses on a controversy over the use of amniocentesis and other methods for sex determ...
There is an emerging global discourse on female selective abortion (FSA) as several Asian countries ...
AbstractBackgroundSex-selective abortion results in fewer girls than boys in India (914 girls:1000 b...
This dissertation deals with the widespread problem in India of using sex selective abortions to dis...
Sex-selective abortion is a practice involving the prenatal preference of males over females. Prior ...
"This paper examines the introduction, spread and impact of amniocentesis (and more recently other s...
CONTEXT: A cultural preference for sons may be a factor driving recourse to abortion in India, as wo...