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Global Debates, Local Dilemmas: Sex-selective Abortion in Contemporary Viet Nam

Year: 2018
Type: book
Abstract: The practice of sex-selective abortion is on the rise globally, stirring debates about gender inequality, medical ethics and reproductive autonomy. This book is the first ethnography to document practices of sex selection in Viet Nam. It shows how and why abortions are used to select the sex of children and how Vietnamese individuals and health professionals are implicated in
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2905191590
FWCI: 1.142
Cites: 212
Cited by: 13
Related to: 10