Gender before birth : sex selection in a transnational context /
Rajani Bhatia.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
- Feminist technosciences .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: lifestyle sex selection -- From selecting sexed sperm and embryos to the anticipation of lifestyle sex selection -- Incorporating a new technology of hope into Fertility Incorporated: the constitution of a maternal subject -- Extending into a global market: lifestyle sex selection as a cross-border practice -- Contesting the known: an arc of activism on sex selection in the United States -- Conclusion: toward a feminist intersectional perspective on sex selection.
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Sex preselection--Social aspects. Human reproductive technology--Social aspects. Sex of children, Parental preferences for. Feminism. Science--Social aspects.