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Title Sex-selective abortion in India : gender, society and new reproductive technologies / editor, Tulsi Patel
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations
Contents Deficit of girls in India : can it be attributed to female selective abortion? / Leela Visaria -- Female foeticide : a civilisational collapse / Ashish Bose -- Rethinking female foeticide : perspective and issues / Rainuka Dagar -- The mindset behind eliminating the female foetus / Tulsi Patel -- Between a rock and a hard place : the social context of the missing girl child / Alpana D. Sagar -- Health policy, plan and implementation : the role of health workers in altering the sex ratio / Reema Bhatia -- Adoption : born to live / Rashmi Kapoor -- Female infanticide, property and the colonial state / L.S. Vishwanath -- The political economy of missing girls in India / Vibbuti Patel
Summary Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abortion -- India
Sexism -- India
Sex distribution (Demography) -- India
Sex ratio -- India
Sex of children, Parental preferences for -- India
Birth control -- Government policy -- India
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Sex ratio
Sex of children, Parental preferences for
Birth control -- Government policy
Abortion
Sex distribution (Demography)
Sexism
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Mädchen
Auslese
Geschlechtsverhältnis.
India
Indien
Form Electronic book
Author Patel, Tulsi.
LC no. 2006031234
ISBN 9788178299587
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