{"product_id":"womens-human-rights-and-migration-sex-selective-abortion-laws-in-the-united-states-and-india-hardback-9780812249330","title":"Women's Human Rights and Migration; Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India (Hardback) 9780812249330","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen's Human Rights and Migration\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSital Kalantry (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812249330\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 9 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.578 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWomen's Human Rights and Migration\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a long-existing gap in feminist theory at the intersection of a migrant woman's experience and culturally motivated reproductive decisions. By recognising the possibility that 'practices that are oppressive to women in one country context may not have a negative impact on women in another country context' Kalantry takes an important step in creating a framework for evaluating competing human rights interests within the complex cultural contexts that arise in migrant-receiving countries.\" (\u003ci\u003eAsia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eWomen's Human Rights and Migration\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important intervention in feminist theory, social change literature, and reproductive rights literature. Sital Kalantry conducts a sensitive investigation of women's motives and contexts, combined with a sophisticated theoretical call for contextual feminist analysis.\" (Hila Shamir, Tel Aviv University) \"Sital Kalantry's trenchant and compelling book demonstrates how current debates regarding reproduction, when analyzed with a critical, global lens, reveal the shortcomings of traditional narratives surrounding women's rights.\" (Sonia Katyal, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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 \u003ci\u003eWomen's Human Rights and Migration\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e. Nearly half of state legislatures in the United States have proposed laws restricting sex-selective abortion since 2009 and nine have adopted them.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWomen's Human Rights and Migration\u003c\/i\u003e develops a transnational feminist legal approach to examining and legislating contested acts that result from migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559201141016,"sku":"9780812249330","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/womens-human-rights-and-migration-sex-selective-abortion-laws-in-the-united-states-and-india-hardback-9780812249330","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}