Amniocentesis and Sex Selection
Publisher
Centre for Women’s Development Studies
1994
English
Occasional Paper;
Abstract
How does one analytically locate the social phenomenon manifested in India during the last few years since the advent of sex-selection technology in the mid-70s? We must seek to contextualise it within several value debates (which aspire to become systems) - of gender equality, reproductive freedom, the role of state control over private lives (ostensibly for the public good), medical responsibility and social justice.