{"product_id":"gender-before-birth-rajani-bhatia-9780295999210","title":"Gender Before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an \"act of violence against women\" and \"unethical.\" At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as \"family balancing\" and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In \u003ci\u003eGender before Birth\u003c\/i\u003e, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how similar practices in the West and non-West are divergently named and framed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBhatia's extensive fieldwork includes interviews with clinicians, scientists, biomedical service providers, and feminist activists, and her resulting analysis extends both feminist theory on reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. She argues that we are at the beginning of a changing transnational terrain that presents new challenges to theorized inequality in reproduction, demonstrating how the technosciences often get embroiled in colonial gender and racial politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rajani Bhatia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295999217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295999210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019","brand":"Rajani Bhatia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44717913669887,"sku":"9780295999210","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70b6a9fc-6f32-42ee-86f5-6bbfe7eed408.jpg?v=1705689854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gender-before-birth-rajani-bhatia-9780295999210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}