Historicising the agency of India's reproductive subjects.
Research on female foeticide in India frames India's reproductive subjects as incapable of exercising mastery over their bodies. This framing often questions Indian women's exercise of reproductive agency within Indian patriarchy and views women as preferring sons. Such framing is problematic as it...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 114 - 129 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2021
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