Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India

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Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India is written by Sheela Suryanarayanan and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836950071 (ISBN 10) and 9781836950073 (ISBN 13).

Sex selective abortions are unjust, unethical and illegal in India, yet the experience of motherhood for pregnant women can be influenced by ‘son preference’ from those who support female feticide. Women are denied agency in exercising reproductive rights and the medical fraternity often fosters the misuse of technologies for sex selective abortions in India. This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women, their partner s and mothers-in-law in three Indian states.