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Porträtt Lisa Eklund. Foto: Emma Lord.

Lisa Eklund

Docent | Universitetslektor

Porträtt Lisa Eklund. Foto: Emma Lord.

’Gendercide’, Abortion Policy, and the Disciplining of Prenatal Sex-Selection in Neoliberal Europe

Författare

  • Navtej Purewal
  • Lisa Eklund

Summary, in English

This article examines the contours of how sex-selective abortion (SSA) and ‘gendercide’ have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Analysing the development of policies on the topic, we identify three ‘turns’ which have become integral to the biopolitics of SSA in Europe: the biomedical turn, the ‘gendercide’ turn, and the Asian demographic turn. Recent attempts to discipline SSA in the UK and Sweden are examined as a means of showing how the neoliberal state in Europe is becoming increasingly open to manoeuvres to undermine the right to abortion, even where firm laws exist.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2018

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

724-741

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Public Health

Volym

13

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
  • Gender Studies
  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology

Nyckelord

  • biopolitics
  • 'gendercide'
  • sex-selection
  • abortion
  • neoliberal state

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1744-1706