1st Edition
Son Preference Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia
By Navtej K. Purewal
Copyright 2010
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in many parts of Asia, its contemporary expressions illustrate the gendered outcomes of social power relations as they interact and intersect with culture, economy and technologies. Son Preference... Read more
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionMapping Knowledges of Son PreferenceSon Preference in the Colonial and Postcolonial'Figuring out' Son PreferenceAnti-Female Foeticide: Between Activism and OrthodoxyNarratives of Reproductive Choice and Culture in the DiasporaGirl Talk: Cultural Change and Challenge through the Eyes of Young Women in Contemporary PunjabConclusion by way of EpilogueBibliographyIndex
Biography
Navtej K. Purewal is Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
