Sex-Selective Abortion in India
Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies
- Tulsi Patel - Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India
The contributors examine ways in which reproductive technologies, such as, the ultrasound, are misused at the family, community and state levels. In this alarming scenario, the volume highlights both the participation and defiance of the various authorities dealing with reproduction, health services and the problem of female foeticide. Engagement with the state is analysed in the light of colonial policies, the law of adoption, health policies, family planning programmes and the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act of 1994 and its amendment in 2002.
Applying a multidisciplinary perspective to the problem of fewer girls being born in India, this volume addresses this critical issue with the help of qualitative and quantitative data, both historical and contemporary.
"Sex-Selective Abortion in India examines the problem, detaining the numbers and placing the figures within their cultural and historical context."
The book is a commendable piece of work highlighting the problem of sex ratio and sex selective abortion in India. It clearly addresses the nexus among culture, society and new reproductive technologies and opens up enormous possibilities for fresh theorization on sex ratio within the fertility family, planning, society and new reproductive technologies framework.
This collection of 11 essays unravels the reasons for the depleting the child sex ratio in India.
This is timely book on an important issue that is caentre-stage since the 2001 census, namely the disappearance of baby girls.
Sex Selective Abortion in India is an overt delineation of the abhorrent practice of selecting a child’s sex….This is an eye opener book. It throws light on the hierarchical society and the preference for sons present in Indian society since times immemorial.
This scholarly volume addresses the ‘national emergency’ of declining sex ratio in India from 1901 to 2007. At the same time it increases understanding on a hugely important and challenging subject of femali-specific abortion
The book is a commendable piece of work in highlighting the problem of sex ratio and sex selective abortion in India. Most of the chapters attest the modern practice of sex selective abortion in the northern india. The book clearly addresses culture, society and new reproductive technologies nexus and opens up enornous possibility of fresh theorization on sex ratio within the fertility family, planning, society and new reproductive technologies framework.
