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Gender, Identity and Violence - Female Deselection in India (Hardcover)
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Gender, Identity and Violence - Female Deselection in India (Hardcover)
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The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British
passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago.
Since 1960, India's birth sex ratios have progressively declined
from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed
by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book
explores girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female
infanticide and foeticide, and the role of caste and religion. The
book spans critical socio-historical contexts and examines the
practice of selective right to life. It views the effects of
militancy and khaap panchayats, and studies women's rights
discourses and protective legal reforms. The gender imbalance is
mapped globally and analysed in the specific conditions of the
Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. The book examines the
inter-linkages of gender hierarchies with male child preference and
warns that theoretical analyses limited to female foeticide alone
cannot address gender inequalities or change the cycle of violence.
This will be valuable to scholars and researchers of gender and
women studies, sociology, politics, and population and demographic
studies. It will also be indispensable for women's rights
activists, NGOs, policy makers, government bodies, and those
studying health and family planning.
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