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'Missing Girls' and Reproductive Justice @Beijing+30

Eklund, Lisa LU and Purewal, Navtej (2025) In SOAS Global Development Research Brief
Abstract
This piece considers how we can think critically around prenatal sex selection and the problem of ‘missing girls’ and devise strategies to address this phenomenon without risk of harming the rights and interests of girls and women. To address the problem of ‘missing girls’ our research findings suggest there is a need to move beyond a rights-based approach towards gender and reproductive justice, where cultural, economic, legal, political and social inequalities are removed so that pregnancy is not yet another site of gender discrimination. A gender and reproductive justice approach to tackle the problem of ‘missing girls’ is becoming increasingly pertinent with the recent surge in anti-genderism, which risks fortifying the very structures... (More)
This piece considers how we can think critically around prenatal sex selection and the problem of ‘missing girls’ and devise strategies to address this phenomenon without risk of harming the rights and interests of girls and women. To address the problem of ‘missing girls’ our research findings suggest there is a need to move beyond a rights-based approach towards gender and reproductive justice, where cultural, economic, legal, political and social inequalities are removed so that pregnancy is not yet another site of gender discrimination. A gender and reproductive justice approach to tackle the problem of ‘missing girls’ is becoming increasingly pertinent with the recent surge in anti-genderism, which risks fortifying the very structures that uphold son preference and daughter aversion. (Less)
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Sex Ratio, Sex-selective abortion, Reproductive justice, Women's Rights, missing girls
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SOAS Global Development Research Brief
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14 pages
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SOAS University of London
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10.25501/SOAS.00043807
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English
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