Investing in mothering: Reproduction, sex selective technologies and biological capital in an Indian case study

Debating Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health, Medicine and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 185-197

  Henry, Marsha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987681     Document Type: Chapter

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