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Son preference [electronic resource] / sex selection, gender and culture in South Asia / Navtej K. Purewal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purewal, Navtej Kaur.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for--South Asia.
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for.
- Sons.
- Sex discrimination against women--South Asia.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 142 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Berg, 2010.
- Summary:
- 'Son Preference' provides an accessible and highly engaging exploration of why male children are favoured in South Asian culture and what effects this has. 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84788-753-8
- OCLC:
- 621673521
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