The Indian woman's decision to sex-selectively abort : challenging the presumption of adaptive preference formation and absence of autonomy

Some women in India are making the decision to abort their foetus because it has been identified as female. One feminist intuition could be that those decisions are a result of false consciousness, that women have adapted their preferences in response to the social and gender oppression to which the...

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Main Author: Fellowes, Melanie
Other Authors: Chico, Victoria
Published: University of Sheffield 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.749450