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Product Description This book brings together the reproductive, familial, market, legal and political economies of sex-selection, and situates the practice in the continuum of different kind of gendered violence. In the past few decades, the locales of prenatal sex-selection have expanded and the sex ratio has become increasingly adverse for women. The essays in this book address this from several analytic and regional perspectives: the nature and consequences of the practice, the responses of women's organisations, and its positioning in the media. The contributors examine the trajectory of the legislations, state policies on population, health, reproduction and curbing sex selection as well as the import and embedding of new reproductive technologies. About the Author Uma Chakravarti has taught history at Delhi University for many years and has been associated with the women's and democratic rights movements in India. Kumkum Sangari is Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities at Milwaukee University. She has been closely associated with the women's movement in India for many years.