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Book Synopsis Sex-selective Abortion in India by : Mary Elizabeth Shepherd
Download or read book Sex-selective Abortion in India written by Mary Elizabeth Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Sex-Selective Abortion in India by : Tulsi Patel
Download or read book Sex-Selective Abortion in India written by Tulsi Patel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Women's Human Rights and Migration by : Sital Kalantry
Download or read book Women's Human Rights and Migration written by Sital Kalantry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Sex-Selective Abortion in India by : Tulsi Patel
Download or read book Sex-Selective Abortion in India written by Tulsi Patel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.
Book Synopsis Unnatural Selection by : Mara Hvistendahl
Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Mara Hvistendahl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Book Synopsis Sex-selective Abortion and the State by : Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Download or read book Sex-selective Abortion and the State written by Bijayalaxmi Nanda and published by Shakti Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Disappearing Daughters by : Gita Aravamudan
Download or read book Disappearing Daughters written by Gita Aravamudan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles with reference to India.
Book Synopsis Sex-selective Abortion in India by :
Download or read book Sex-selective Abortion in India written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.
Book Synopsis Reproductive Politics in India by : Josephine Kipgen
Download or read book Reproductive Politics in India written by Josephine Kipgen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics by : Maya Unnithan
Download or read book Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics written by Maya Unnithan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of a vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realised. A compelling analysis, this book offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights. It draws together the practices, experiences and discourse on fertility and reproduction (childbirth, infertility, loss) in Northern India into an overarching analytical framework on power and gender politics. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, gender studies, human rights and sociolegal studies, and South Asian studies.
Book Synopsis Gender Before Birth by : Rajani Bhatia
Download or read book Gender Before Birth written by Rajani Bhatia and published by Feminist Technosciences. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground on the evolution and present technologies and practices of lifestyle sex selection, builds on and critiques feminist and STS theories of reproduction to develop the new concept of biopopulationism, and engages with the messy politics of sex selection in the United States.
Book Synopsis Factors Affecting Sex-selective Abortion in India and 17 Major States by : Robert D. Retherford
Download or read book Factors Affecting Sex-selective Abortion in India and 17 Major States written by Robert D. Retherford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abortion in India by : Leela Visaria
Download or read book Abortion in India written by Leela Visaria and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India was a pioneer in legalizing induced abortion, or Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) in 1971. Yet, after three decades, morbidity and mortality due to unsafe abortion remain a serious problem. There is little public debate on the issue despite several national campaigns on safe motherhood. Instead, discussion on abortion has mainly centred around declining sex ratio, sex-selective abortion, and the proliferation of abortion clinics in urban areas. Adding to the problem is that abortion continues to be a sensitive, private matter, often with ethical/moral/religious connotations that sets it apart from other reproductive health-seeking behaviour. This book fills a gap in our understanding of the ground realities with respect to induced abortion in India to create an evidence-based body of knowledge. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, the case studies show why and under what circumstances women seek abortion and the quality of services available to them. They also explore inter-generational differences in attitudes and practices, the perceptions and selection of providers, female-selective abortion, and informal abortion practitioners. Among other issues, the contributors show that strong preference for sons, availability of modern techniques for diagnostic tests, widespread acceptance of the small family norm, and heavy reliance on female sterilisation as the primary method of contraception lead women to abort unwanted pregnancies. A book that goes beyond the smokescreen of data and regulations to unravel the human story behind elective abortion, it will be of interest to those studying health, public policy, and gender, apart from the general reader.
Book Synopsis Sex-selective abortion. Why it should be prohibited by : Kamalesh Dey
Download or read book Sex-selective abortion. Why it should be prohibited written by Kamalesh Dey and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Health - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire (Health and Social Sciences), course: MSc in Public Health, language: English, abstract: The paper will talk about sex selective abortion and its negative impact on public health. The paper will also critically justify the statement “sex- selective abortion should be prohibited” through different arguments in the perspective of ethical and legal issues of health and social care. It was said that “Abortion is defined as the emptying practice of a pregnant uterus up to the twenty four weeks of pregnancy”. However, unprompted abortion normally is called miscarriage. Abortion refers to the abolition of a fetus or embryo from the uterus just before its stage of viability. Sex selective abortion was defined as the practice of prenatal discrimination, in which a fetus is aborted just after the identification of its sex. This practice is promoting sex inequality in the society. Moreover, Sex-selective abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy based on the expected sex of the unborn baby. In general, female fetuses are the main victims of sex selective abortion in many countries in the world particularly in Southeast Europe, India, Pakistan and the People's Republic of China.
Book Synopsis Factors Affecting Sex-selective Abortion in India by : Robert D. Retherford
Download or read book Factors Affecting Sex-selective Abortion in India written by Robert D. Retherford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Son Preference by : Navtej K. Purewal
Download or read book Son Preference written by Navtej K. Purewal and published by Berg. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Son Preference' provides an accessible and highly engaging exploration of why male children are favoured in South Asian culture and what effects this has.
Book Synopsis Sex-Selective Abortions and Infant Mortality in India by : Marie-Claire Robitaille
Download or read book Sex-Selective Abortions and Infant Mortality in India written by Marie-Claire Robitaille and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of the strong desire for sons in India, millions of female fetuses have been aborted over the last three decades alongside an abnormally high mortality rate of infant girls. Given the extent of the problem, a large amount of literature exists on the overall root causes of son preference. Little is known, however, on how the decisions to abort female fetuses or neglect infant girls are made. This paper examines the motivations of mothers and fathers and their respective roles in the decision to sex-selectively abort or neglect girls. It is shown that marriage aligns the level of son preference among spouses as spouse's stated son preference, ceteris paribus, is by far the most significant determinant of stated son preference. However, despite the alignment, some couples express diverging son preference. Using data from the third National Family and Health Survey, we show that while sex-selective abortion services are most commonly used by couples and men preferring sons, sex-selective neglect of infant girls is also used as a strategy by the mothers in order to achieve their desired sex-ratio.
