Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations
about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India …

This essay explores and reviews the literature from low‐and middle‐income countries on the
pathways of influence between women's empowerment and reproductive outcomes …

The late 1990s saw a shift in the implementation of Indian health and population policies
from a focus on fertility control in its Family Planning programme towards a rights-based and …

Online social support, with its novel opportunities for coping, is especially important for those
experiencing isolation. Daughters-in-law in Azerbaijan are isolated and have inadequate …

The UK's on-going sex-selective abortion (SSA) controversy remains a major obstacle to the
liberalization of national abortion governance, and is an issue broadly attributed to a …

Evolving knowledge of genetics and improved clinical care have re-shaped life choices for
those suffering from chronic, incurable conditions and their families. Yet the realisation of …

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-
cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional concerns which animate these …

Abortion has been at the center of the anthropological examination of body politics,
contributing to the theories of bodily integrity, autonomy, entitlement, claims, choice, consent …

Background This research article examines the efficiency with which the Indian family
planning programme provides care to Muslim women who opt to undergo tubectomies from …

Recent demographic analysis of sex ratios at birth in the UK has signaled the issue of
“missing girls” in British Asian minority populations. This paper juxtaposes the processes of …