Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India

Factors Affecting Sex-Selective Abortion In India

This NFHS Bulletin summarizes findings from India’s first and second National Family Health Surveys, conducted in 1992–93 and 1998–99, respectively, under the auspices of the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The surveys provide national and state-level estimates of fertility, infant and child mortality, family planning practice, maternal and child health, and the utilization of ser...

An Analysis of Abortion Laws and Sex Selective Abortion in India: A Case Study of Rajasthan

A son in every Hindu society pays his own father the debt and he owes him for his own life whereas a girl child is treated as a burden mainly in case of first child. Even today in India we have many societies which does not welcome girl child. Although there is an increase in overall sex ratio, there is a continuous decline in child sex ratio. This paper focuses on issues of sex selective abort...

Culture or inequality in sex-selective abortion?

Title: Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence: Women Workers in Sri Lanka

Using the case of Sri Lanka, this paper argues that plantations were patriarchal institutions that perpetuated structural violence against women workers. ‘Plantation patriarchy’ incorporated social hierarchies and gender biases stemming from colonialism, race, caste, ethnicity, religion and culture into the structure of the labour regime and in the social organisation on plantations, justifying...

Evidence mounts for sex-selective abortion in Asia.

In Korea, China, and Taiwan--countries where son preference persists--the availability of prenatal screening techniques and induced abortion has produced an imbalance in the naturally occurring sex ratios of 104-107 male births for every 100 female births. Policy responses to sex-selective abortion were the focus of a 1994 International Symposium on Sex Preference for Children in the Rapidly C...