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Women's Human Rights and Migration : Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India / Sital Kalantry.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalantry, Sital, author.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Law and legislation--India.
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for--United States.
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for.
- Sex of children, Parental preferences for--India.
- Sex preselection--Law and legislation--United States.
- Sex preselection.
- Sex preselection--Law and legislation--India.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Immigrants.
- United States.
- India.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Cross-Border Practices
- Chapter 2. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion
- Chapter 3. The Politics of Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States
- Chapter 4. Sex Selection in the United States: From Gender-Biased Sex Selection to Family Balancing
- Chapter 5. Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Magnitude, Causes, and Responses
- Chapter 6. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion Bans in the United States and India
- Chapter 7. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to the French Veil Ban
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780812294200
- 0812294203
- OCLC:
- 988871022
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