Disciplining the sex ratio

Exploring the governmentality of female foeticide in India

Bibliographic Data

ID19006090
AuthorsNavtej K Purewal (0000-0002-2025-1136, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Navtej Purewal
Year2014
Volume21
Issue5
Pages466-480
Publication date2014-01-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIdentities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1070289x.2013.878248
OpenAlexW2016702563
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse on the ‘girl child’ and sex selective abortion in India within a broad cultural backdrop of son preference. The article argues that anti-female foeticide campaigns exist within a disciplinary domain of female foeticide which both generates a discourse of saving the ‘girl child’ and also shows attempts to utilise both incentives and punitive measures in carving out a female foeticide carceral space

Abortion · Biology · Developmental psychology · Elite · Girl · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Punitive damages · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Psychology

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