Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781845204679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 160 str.

Navtej K Purewal

Opis

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 brings together key debates on the subject by assessing existing work in the field and providing new insights through primary research. The book covers a broad range of social science discussions and draws upon textual and ethnographic material from India. Son Preference will be useful to students, scholars, activists and anyone interested in the issues surrounding gender inequity, sex selection and skewed sex ratios.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Navtej K. Purewal is Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester