Gender, Identity and Violence : Female Deselection in India
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0367176726
ISBN-13
9780367176723
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2019
Print length
348 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Ksh 8,800.00
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The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India‘s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book explores girl child desel
Weaving economic and socio-political processes with the living narrative of customs, rituals and practices in differently-placed groups to decode the legitimising mechanisms of male child preference in India, this book explores male infanticide as redemption of blood debt, girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female infanticide, and foeticide in the context of identity assertion and traditional social reservoirs. It empirically captures the range of gender-based violence, arguing that form-specific strategies neither address the inequalities nor its causes.
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