Search results

The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in many parts of Asia, its contemporary expressions illustrate the gendered outcomes of social power relations as they interact and intersect with culture, economy and technologies. Son Preference brings together key debates on the subject of son preference by assessing existing work in the field and providing new insights through primary research. The book covers a broad range of social science dis

Explores how assumptions about the relationship between reproductive patterns & development in the Third World -- ie, the notion that population reduction is necessary to economic development -- have caused many international development programs in these countries to focus on women. An analysis of the international development discourse reveals how development & population policies covertly work to keep women repressed through denial of choices over fertility. An acute contradiction arises in that increased economic activities at the household level often create the perception that more children are needed to help out, while women's increased participation in work outside the home restricts the time available to care for their children. Several structural adjustment programs initiated by the World Bank are examined, along with ways in which women have actively begun to resist such efforts & fight for both their productive & reproductive rights at the grassroots level. 69 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Explores how assumptions about the relationship between reproductive patterns & development in the Third World -- ie, the notion that population reduction is necessary to economic development -- have caused many international development programs in these countries to focus on women. An analysis of the international development discourse reveals how development & population policies covertly work to keep women repressed through denial of choices over fertility. An acute contradiction arises in that increased economic activities at the household level often create the perception that more children are needed to help out, while women's increased participation in work outside the home restricts the time available to care for their children. Several structural adjustment programs initiated by the World Bank are examined, along with ways in which women have actively begun to resist such efforts & fight for both their productive & reproductive rights at the grassroots level. 69 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later, the symbol of Bhindranwale, who was killed in the Indian army's Operation Blue Star, has re-emerged. The 'bazaar economy' has provided a new canvas for the imagery of Bhindranwale, whose images are today visible in commodified forms available for purchase in shops and market stalls in Punjab. This article analyses this resurgence as a public response to contemporary politics in Punjab and locates the circulation of Bhindranwale through souvenir-like goods within the region's 'economic base of place' (Urry. 1995. Consuming Places. London: Routledge) in which the consumer market has enabled a conduit through which identity and political culture can be both purchased and displayed. The article examines the backdrop of his emblematic re-emergence within the historical context as it relates to the collective memory of 1984 and the meanings of Bhindranwale's legacy and symbolism for the current times. © 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis.