Son preference : sex selection, gender, and culture in South Asia / Navtej K. Purewal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purewal, Navtej Kaur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex of children, Parental preferences for--South Asia.

Sex of children, Parental preferences for.

Sons--South Asia.

Sons.

Daughters--South Asia.

Daughters.

Sex discrimination against women--South Asia.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 dis

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Mapping Knowledges of Son Preference; 2 Son Preference in the Colonial and Postcolonial; 3 Figuring Out Son Preference; 4 Anti-Female Foeticide: Between Activism and Orthodoxy; 5 Narratives of Reproductive Choice and Culture in the Diaspora; 6 Girl Talk: Cultural Change and Challenge Through the Eyes of Young Women in Contemporary Punjab; Conclusion by way of Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-00-308673-X

1-000-19013-7

1-000-18350-5

1-003-08673-X

93-86141-86-8

1-4742-1553-X

1-282-59667-5

9786612596674

1-84788-754-6

9781003086734

OCLC:

621673521