The mindset behind eliminating the female foetus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-174

  Patel, Tulsi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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