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

dc.contributor.authorMinh Hang, Tran
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T01:41:24Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T01:41:24Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.description.abstractThe 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. ‘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 Copenhagenen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9781760462420en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/202648
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyrighten_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)en_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_AU
dc.titleGlobal Debates, Local Dilemmas: Sex-selective Abortion in Contemporary Viet Namen_AU
dc.typeBooken_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher websiteen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailanupress@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.identifier.doi10.22459/GDLD.2018en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4026086en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://press.anu.edu.au/en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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