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999 _c156127
_d156127
020 _a9781845204686
040 _cCUS
082 _a306.8740954
_bPUR/S
100 _aPurewal, Navtej K.
245 0 _aSon preference: sex selection, gender and culture in South Asia/
_cNavtej K. Purewal
260 _aNew York:
_bBerg,
_c2010.
300 _axvii, 142 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aMapping 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.
650 _aSex discrimination against women
650 _aDaughters
650 _aSons
650 _aParent and child
942 _cWB16