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020			_a9781138349445
040			_cIGNOU Library
082			_223 _a364.152308320954 D132G
100			_aDagar, Rainuka _eauthor _98616
245			_aGender, identity and violence : _bfemale deselection in India / _cRainuka Dagar.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York ; _aNew Delhi : _bRoutledge, _c2018.
300			_axxii, 324 pages : _bmap ; _c23 cm
505			_aMapping child deselection through a civilisational periscope -- Debates on gender violence, identity and rights: Implications for female deselection -- Girl child deselection: Disappearance and invisibility in the context of Punjab -- Justifying narratives, legitimising mechanisms -- Interpreting gender and cultural specificities: Decoding the power of masculine constructs in panchayats, Punjab -- Gender positioning within the cultural support structures -- Policy and practice: Negotiating the politics of gender in identity-based exchange -- Constructing gender capital for gender justice.
520			_a The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India's birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book explores girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female infanticide and foeticide, and the role of caste and religion. The book spans critical socio-historical contexts and examines the practice of selective right to life. It views the effects of militancy and khaap panchayats, and studies women's rights discourses and protective legal reforms. The gender imbalance is mapped globally and analysed in the specific conditions of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. The book examines the inter-linkages of gender hierarchies with male child preference and warns that theoretical analyses limited to female foeticide alone cannot address gender inequalities or change the cycle of violence. This will be valuable to scholars and researchers of gender and women studies, sociology, politics, and population and demographic studies. It will also be indispensable for women's rights activists, NGOs, policy makers, government bodies, and those studying health and family planning. -- Provided by publisher.
650			_aFemale feticide _zIndia _zPunjab. _94319
650			_aInfanticide _zIndia. _98617
650			_aSex discrimination against women _zIndia. _98618
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