Gender, identity and violence : female deselection in India / Rainuka Dagar.

By:

Dagar, Rainuka [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York ; New Delhi : Routledge, 2014.Description: xxii, 324 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781138020283 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

23 305.420954 DAG 007599

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Table of contents

Contents:

I.Mapping Child Deselection through a Civilisational Periscope II.Debates on Gender Violence, Identity and Rights: Implications for Female Deselection III.Girl Child Deselection: Disappearance and Invisibility in the Context of Punjab IV.Justifying Narratives, Legitimising Mechanisms V.Interpreting Gender and Cultural Specificities: Decoding the Power of Masculine Constructs in Panchayats, Punjab VI.Gender Positioning within the Cultural Support Structures VII.Policy and Practice: Negotiating the Politics of Gender in Identity-based Exchange VIII.Constructing Gender Capital for Gender Justice.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-311) and index.

I.Mapping Child Deselection through a Civilisational Periscope
II.Debates on Gender Violence, Identity and Rights: Implications for Female Deselection
III.Girl Child Deselection: Disappearance and Invisibility in the Context of Punjab
IV.Justifying Narratives, Legitimising Mechanisms
V.Interpreting Gender and Cultural Specificities: Decoding the Power of Masculine Constructs in Panchayats, Punjab
VI.Gender Positioning within the Cultural Support Structures
VII.Policy and Practice: Negotiating the Politics of Gender in Identity-based Exchange
VIII.Constructing Gender Capital for Gender Justice.

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.

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