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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKalantry, Sital
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWomen's Human Rights and Migration :
_bSex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India /
_cSital Kalantry.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.) :
_b9 illus.
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490 0 _aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Cross-Border Practices --
_tChapter 2. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion --
_tChapter 3. The Politics of Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States --
_tChapter 4. Sex Selection in the United States: From Gender-Biased Sex Selection to Family Balancing --
_tChapter 5. Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Magnitude, Causes, and Responses --
_tChapter 6. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion Bans in the United States and India --
_tChapter 7. Transnational Legal Feminist Approach to the French Veil Ban --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
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520 _aSome of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them. In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry focuses on immigrants of Asian descent living in the United States who are believed to abort female fetuses because they do not want a female child. While sex-selective abortion is a human rights concern in India, should we, for that reason, assume that the practice undermines women's equality in the United States? Although some pro-choice feminists believe that these prohibitions on sex-selective abortion promote women's equality, other feminists fiercely oppose such laws, characterizing them as a Trojan horse in the larger pursuit to overturn the reproductive rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. Nearly half of state legislatures in the United States have proposed laws restricting sex-selective abortion since 2009 and nine have adopted them.Kalantry argues that traditional feminist legal theories and international human rights law fail to provide adequate guidance in examining the human rights implications of the reproductive practices of immigrant women, evidenced by the fact that both supporters and opponents ground their claims in women's equality. She advocates instead for a context-based approach that is open to the possibility that sex-selective abortion practices will have significantly different human rights implications when they emerge in different national contexts. The product of extensive empirical and interdisciplinary research, Kalantry's book investigates the actual occurrence of sex-selective abortion among Asian Americans, the social and cultural contexts in which women in the United States and India practice sex-selective abortion, and the consequences of the laws in each country for women's equality. Women's Human Rights and Migration develops a transnational feminist legal approach to examining and legislating contested acts that result from migration.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
650 0 _aAbortion
_xLaw and legislation
_zIndia.
650 0 _aAbortion
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSex of children, Parental preferences for
_zIndia.
650 0 _aSex of children, Parental preferences for
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aHuman Rights.
650 4 _aLaw.
650 4 _aPolitical Science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
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