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  title info:
    title: Global debates, local dilemmas
    sub title: sex-selective abortion in contemporary Viet Nam
  title info:
    title: Sex-selective abortion in contemporary Vietnam
  name:
    name part: Hang, Tran Minh
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Australian National University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 'This pioneering study offers a nuanced and sensitive account of sex-selective abortion as human experience. Through thought provoking case studies, the book provides rare ethnographic documentation of the complex quandaries that arise as selective reproductive technologies are routinised across the globe.' -- Tine M. Gammeltoft, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
  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 this illicit and controversial practice. Telling the stories of women who have undergone sex-selective abortions, it traces their passage through sex determination and abortion decision-making phases, and investigates their experiences during and after their sex-selective abortions. It describes the turmoil experienced by individuals who undergo such abortions and explores their interactions with the spectrum of social actors and health institutions that facilitate practices of sex selection. As the first ethnographic study on sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam, this book delves into socially sensitive terrain and sheds light on personally fraught individual experiences of reproductive agency. It documents societal responses to sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam and identifies gaps in the state's capacity to regulate reproductive desire in a marketised economy. A resource for researchers, it contributes to ongoing debates on sex selection and provides a framework for developing relevant social policies, interventions and support services.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Tran Minh Hang.
  note: Ebook access via Internet
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: Vietnam
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Vietnam
  subject:
    topic: Sex preselection
  subject:
    topic: Sex of children, Parental preferences for
    geographic: Vietnam
  classification: HQ767.5.V5 H26 2018
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vietnam Series (Australian National University Press)
  identifier: 9781760462420 (print)
  identifier: 176046242X (print)
  identifier: 9781760462437 (online)
  identifier: 1760462438 (online)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ANV
    record creation date: 181216
    record change date: 20260728172431.5
    record identifier: in00004054041
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng