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0000-0001-5904-927X
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University of New South Wales The Laureate Research Centre for History & Population
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-10-2015
Abstract: The article tracks the evolution of the family planning programmes in India and China and the conceptual linkages between the two. This comparison, in turn, serves as an entry point for studying the following: The role that the family plays in becoming the site of governance and deploying state-led capitalism in the two countries. The assumptions behind the development trajectories in both countries. What are the ways in which the policies lified patrilineal hierarchies within families to produce the disturbing outcome of the missing girl child—this even as the family planning policies became constrained as they were acting within a cultural milieu of patriarchy. The article uses studies and commentaries across disciplines, such as, historical demography and anthropology to situate its arguments. The conclusion it attempts to put forth is that the small family norm was operationalised in various differing ways in both states, and yet the commonalities that arose were the following: The declining sex ratio in both states as an immediate repercussion of the enforcement of the small family norm. The structuring of the health services around the family planning operations. The small family norm becoming an end in itself, as a mode of reaching a level of development akin to the West, and as an ethic for modernising nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00194646211044172
Abstract: Tarangini Sriraman, In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018, 323 pp.
Location: Australia
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