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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...

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Published in:Social Identities Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 114 - 129
Main Author: Ghosh, Rupa
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2021
Subjects:
India
Abortion
Historicism
Population control movement
Guardian & ward
Autonomy (Psychology)
Orientalism
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