Sex-Selective Abortion in India

Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3539-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

This collection of 11 essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex ratio in India. The contributors, all distinguished demographers and social scientists, describe the political economy of sentiments and sexual mores that leads parents to kill unborn daughters.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patel, Tulsi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Lebensqualitätsforschung (med.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Tim Dyson
Preface
Introduction: Gender Relations, NRTs and Female Foeticide in India - Tulsi Patel
PART I: MISSING GIRLS AND NRTS: ETHICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DILEMMAS
Deficit of Girls in India: Can it be Attributed to Female Selective Abortion? - Leela Visaria
Female Foeticide: A Civilisational Collapse - Ashish Bose
Rethinking Female Foeticide: Perspective and Issues - Rainuka Dagar
PART II: MEANING AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE DEPLETING NUMBER OF GIRLS
The Mindset behind Eliminating the Female Foetus - Tulsi Patel
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Context of the Missing Girl Child - Alpana D. Sagar
Health Policy, Plan and Implementation: The Role of Health Workers in Altering the Sex Ratio - Reema Bhatia
Adoption: Born to Live - Rashmi Kapoor
PART III: REPRESENTATION, ARTICULATION AND THE STATE
Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State - L. S. Vishwanath
The Political Economy of Missing Girls in India - Vibhuti Patel
Female Foeticide, Family Planning and State-Society Intersection in India - Tulsi Patel
Appendices
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patel, Tulsi
Tulsi Patel is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi.

She has recently been Rotating Chair, India Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany for a full semester (2005–06). An Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester (2001–04), she has also undertaken teaching assignments at the London School of Economics and the Royal Holloway College of the University of London (1996–97). Professor Patel has previously taught at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Miranda House (University of Delhi).

Her areas of interest include gender, anthropology of fertility and reproduction, medical sociology, sociology of the family, and old age. She has authored Fertility Behaviour: Population and Society in a Rajasthan Village (1994, 2nd edn 2006) and edited The Family in India: Structure and Practice (2005). In addition, she has published several articles in national and international journals.