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Author Bhatia, Rajani, author

Title Gender before birth : sex selection in a transnational context / Rajani Bhatia
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Feminist technosciences
Feminist technosciences.
Contents Introduction: lifestyle sex selection -- From selecting sexed sperm and embryos to the anticipation of lifestyle sex selection -- Incorporating a new technology of hope into Fertility Inc.: the constitution of a maternal subject -- Extending into a global market: lifestyle sex selection as a cross-border practice -- Contesting the known: an arc of activism on sex selection in the United States -- Conclusion: toward a feminist intersectional perspective on sex selection
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Sex preselection -- Social aspects
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
Sex of children, Parental preferences for.
Feminism.
Science -- Social aspects.
Sex Preselection -- ethics
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics
Feminism
feminism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Feminism
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
Science -- Social aspects
Sex of children, Parental preferences for
Sex preselection -- Social aspects
Sexuelle Selektion
Reproduktionsmedizin Motiv
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017053762
ISBN 9780295742946
0295742941