Available motherhood: Legal technologies, 'state of exception' and the dekinning of 'war-babies' in Bangladesh

Childhood

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-354

  Mookherjee, Nayanika ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Adoption; Bangladesh; Law; Motherhood; State of exception; War babies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548071724     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568207079213     Document Type: Article

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