Son preference: sex selection, gender and culture in South Asia/
Navtej K. Purewal
- New York: Berg, 2010.
- xvii, 142 p. ; 24 cm.
Mapping knowledges of son preference -- Son preference in the colonial and postcolonial -- 'Figuring out' son preference -- Anti-female foeticide: between activism and orthodoxy -- Narratives of reproductive choice and culture in the diaspora -- Girl talk: cultural change and challenge through the eyes of young women in contemporary Punjab.
9781845204686
Sex discrimination against women Daughters Sons Parent and child