The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection.

Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good–evil binaries, stock characters, em...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author:	Sandesara, Utpal N.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2025
Subjects:	India Gujarat (India) Sex preselection Family planning Consciousness raising Biopolitics (Philosophy) Melodrama Ethicists
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