Author: Tulsi Patel
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761935391
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.

Author: Sital Kalantry
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224933X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry examines the laws to ban sex-selective abortion in the United States and India to argue for a transnational feminist legal approach to evaluating prohibitions on the practices of immigrant women that raise human rights concerns.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Shepherd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Does sex-selective abortion have an impact on gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India? If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective abortion may lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality. In this careful and thorough study that employs data from a 20-year period, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Shepherd investigates the issues behind the sex ratio imbalance in India. This timely work not only has critical implications for India, but its insightful findings will also be highly informative for many countries or societies dealing with sex ratio imbalances.

Author: Gita Aravamudan
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143101703
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Articles with reference to India.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Shepherd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624990663
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Does sex-selective abortion have an impact on gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India? If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective abortion may lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality. In this careful and thorough study that employs data from a 20-year period, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Shepherd investigates the issues behind the sex ratio imbalance in India. This timely work not only has critical implications for India, but its insightful findings will also be highly informative for many countries or societies dealing with sex ratio imbalances.

Author: Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459614577
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--

Author: Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Publisher: Shakti Books
ISBN: 9788124120316
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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"An incisive analysis of the countering of gender discrimination by the Indian State. The selective elimination of female foetuses due to not wanting a female child has led to an imbalance in the child sex ratio of India. The Census of India 2011 has revealed that there are only 919 girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age group. The book critically examines the policies, programmes, laws and schemes that have been unfurled by the state to improve the situation. It contextualises the debate, developments and disagreements that exist in the field by using a feminist theoretical lens. Can the state bring an end to sex-selective abortion and enhance the value of the girl-child in the country? What kind of role can the feminists play in enabling the state in doing so? Well documented, with in-depth empirical and qualitative research, a rich theoretical framework and concrete recommendations, this book has significant policy implications. The state and society in India today are grappling with the issue of sex-selective abortion and the concerns of the girl-child and women while systematic solutions continue to elude them. It will be thus of great interest to policy-makers, implementers and academia. It will also be of interest to scholars of policy studies, political theory, gender studies, population studies and public health. It is essential reading for students, media-persons and practitioners who study, work, write and are interested to intiate change in this field."--Book jacket flap.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788132111795
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Revised version of papers presented at a workshop organised by Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi in October 2003.

Author: Kamalesh Dey
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668237603
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Health - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire (Health and Social Sciences), course: MSc in Public Health, language: English, abstract: The paper will talk about sex selective abortion and its negative impact on public health. The paper will also critically justify the statement “sex- selective abortion should be prohibited” through different arguments in the perspective of ethical and legal issues of health and social care. It was said that “Abortion is defined as the emptying practice of a pregnant uterus up to the twenty four weeks of pregnancy”. However, unprompted abortion normally is called miscarriage. Abortion refers to the abolition of a fetus or embryo from the uterus just before its stage of viability. Sex selective abortion was defined as the practice of prenatal discrimination, in which a fetus is aborted just after the identification of its sex. This practice is promoting sex inequality in the society. Moreover, Sex-selective abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy based on the expected sex of the unborn baby. In general, female fetuses are the main victims of sex selective abortion in many countries in the world particularly in Southeast Europe, India, Pakistan and the People's Republic of China.

Author: Rajani Bhatia
Publisher: Feminist Technosciences
ISBN: 9780295999210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.