Son Preference Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia

by Purewal, Navtej K.

• ISBN13: 9781845204686
• ISBN10: 1845204689
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000190137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

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 of son preference 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, and 'culture'.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Introduction

Mapping Knowledges of Son Preference

Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses and Contexts

Towards a Political Economy of the 'Boy Child' and 'Girl Child'

Sex Selection and Anti-Sex Selection: Policy, Activism and Resistance

Narratives of Reproductive Choice and Culture in the Diaspora

Son Preference and Popular Culture: Gendered Dialogues and Social Critiques

Conclusion

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