Son preference : sex selection, gender and culture in South Asia /
"This is an important intervention that reveals how critical it is to understand historical and sociological contexts of the female foeticide problem in Punjab. Purewal carefully, lucidly analyses how development and policy approaches have formulated the issue but have been unable to address it...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2010.
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| Rhifyn: | English ed. |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=316024 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Mapping Knowledges of Son Preference
- Son Preference in the Colonial and Postcolonial
- 'Figuring out' Son Preference
- Anti-Female Foeticide: Between Activism and Orthodoxy
- Narratives of Reproductive Choice and Culture in the Diaspora
- Girl Talk: Cultural Change and Challenge through the Eyes of Young Women in Contemporary Punjab
- Conclusion by way of Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index