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...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 1 - 24 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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