But It's Not That They Don't Love Their Girls

Gender Equality, Reproductive Rights and Sex-Selective Abortion in Britain

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4564449
AutoresM Unnithan (0000-0002-7649-7282, University of Sussex, autor correspondente), B Kasstan (0000-0002-9020-2954, University of Bristol)
Ano2022
Volume41
Fascículo6-7
Páginas645-658
Data de publicação2022-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.2002857
PMID34937446
OpenAlexW3195467958
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas33

Recent demographic analysis of sex ratios at birth in the UK has signaled the issue of "missing girls" in British Asian minority populations. This paper juxtaposes the processes of reproductive regulation set in motion by this new demographic knowledge of son preference, with lived experiences of gender equality and family-making practices. Ethnographic research conducted with British Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi families reveal diverse mechanisms of family decision-making that add to and nuance the prevailing statistics. We use the lens of "gender equality" and vernacular framings of sex-selective abortion to advance conceptual understandings of son preference as increasingly disconnected from selective reproduction, at the same time as selective reproduction is connected with the governance of ethnic minority identity and reproduction

Abortion · Biology · Ethnic group · Human sexuality · Population · Preference · Reproduction · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Reproductive technology · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Sex work and related issues