Rainuka Dagar

Gender, Identity and Violence

Female Deselection in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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 desel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9780367176723
• ISBN-10: 0367176726
• Artikelnr.: 57009476

Autorenporträt

Rainuka Dagar is Director (Research), Gender Studies Unit, at the Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), India, and Program Director with Altus Global Alliance, The Hague.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Pramod Kumar. Preface. Acknowledgements. 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. Annexure. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index