Deficit of girls in India: Can it be attributed to female selective abortion?

Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 61-79

  Visaria, Leela ^a  

^a Gujarat Institute of Development Research   (India)

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EID: 77950967254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9788178299587.n2     Document Type: Chapter

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