Author : Tulsi Patel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0761935398
This volume raises the emotive issue of millions of girls in India who fail to appear on the social scene, not figuratively, but in real demographic terms. The contributors to this volume, all distinguished demographers and/or social scientists, describe the political economy of sentiments and sexual mores that lead parents to kill unborn daughters. In doing so, they ably unravel the values, principles, and practices behind the depleting child sex ratio in India.
Author : Sital Kalantry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 081224933X
In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry examines the laws to ban sex-selective abortion in the United States and India to argue for a transnational feminist legal approach to evaluating prohibitions on the practices of immigrant women that raise human rights concerns.
Author : Tulsi Patel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780761935391
Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.
Author : Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1459614577
"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--
Author : Mary Elizabeth Shepherd
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Does sex-selective abortion have an impact on gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India? If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective abortion may lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality. In this careful and thorough study that employs data from a 20-year period, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Shepherd investigates the issues behind the sex ratio imbalance in India. This timely work not only has critical implications for India, but its insightful findings will also be highly informative for many countries or societies dealing with sex ratio imbalances.
Author : Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Publisher : Shakti Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 9788124120316
"An incisive analysis of the countering of gender discrimination by the Indian State. The selective elimination of female foetuses due to not wanting a female child has led to an imbalance in the child sex ratio of India. The Census of India 2011 has revealed that there are only 919 girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age group. The book critically examines the policies, programmes, laws and schemes that have been unfurled by the state to improve the situation. It contextualises the debate, developments and disagreements that exist in the field by using a feminist theoretical lens. Can the state bring an end to sex-selective abortion and enhance the value of the girl-child in the country? What kind of role can the feminists play in enabling the state in doing so? Well documented, with in-depth empirical and qualitative research, a rich theoretical framework and concrete recommendations, this book has significant policy implications. The state and society in India today are grappling with the issue of sex-selective abortion and the concerns of the girl-child and women while systematic solutions continue to elude them. It will be thus of great interest to policy-makers, implementers and academia. It will also be of interest to scholars of policy studies, political theory, gender studies, population studies and public health. It is essential reading for students, media-persons and practitioners who study, work, write and are interested to intiate change in this field."--Book jacket flap.
Author : Gita Aravamudan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 9780143101703
Articles with reference to India.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 9788132111795
Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.
Author : Josephine Kipgen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031441761
This monograph explores the full context of sex-selective abortion (SSA) in India by examining the historical forces, political movements, government policies, and gender regimes that shape this reproductive practice. Using qualitative research methods within a feminist methodology, including in-depth interviews with service providers and professionals in New Delhi and a content analysis of Indian newspapers, the study engages the following areas of analysis: the social structures and determinants of SSA in India, the potential for women’s agency in SSA, and the representations of SSA and SSA-seeking women in the Indian media. This research expands the discourse and analysis of SSA by facilitating a nuanced and multilayered exploration of a profoundly contextual, personal, and gendered reproductive issue by grounding data and interpretation in the lived experiences of research participants with systems-wide knowledge of SSA. Further, the feminist theory-informed analysis moves away from normative victimhood frameworks. Lastly, the book contributes to the understudied area of media discourse analysis on the intersections of gender and SSA in national news coverage. This book will be relevant for students, scholars, and teachers across the humanities and social sciences interested in reproductive rights, justice, and feminist research methods. It will also be a critical resource for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocates.
Author : Robert D. Retherford
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Abortion
ISBN :
