Son-preference and family planning: Women Using Reproductive Technologies and Spiritual Healers in Urban Middle-Class India
| dc.contributor.author | Kohli, Ambika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-10T19:33:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-10T19:33:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Both son-preference and small family size are important elements of contemporary urban middle-class Indian families. The prevalence of small families of one or two children with a strong desire to have a son has pushed women to resort to illegal means of ultrasound sex-detection, use services from spiritual healers, and follow ancient Indian knowledge. I have used the concept of technologies to explain the use of modern reproductive technologies and the application of ancient spiritual knowledge in women’s lives. In addition, I have employed the concepts of multiple modernities that suggests the use of technology to meet contemporary reproductive needs is quite modern in itself. It is a qualitative study of urban middle-class married mothers in the states of Delhi and Haryana, India, view and practice son preference. I conducted semi-structured interviews with 45 urban married, educated, middle-class mothers recruited through the snowballing technique. This article suggests that technology and society are mutually constitutive interests technology can be seen as both shaped by social-cultural settings and shaping social structures. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2463-2945 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103197 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/12329 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Project Monma Research Centre | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | technology | en |
| dc.subject | spiritual healers | en |
| dc.subject | son-preference | en |
| dc.subject | Indian women | en |
| dc.subject | multiple modernities | en |
| dc.subject | middle class | en |
| dc.title | Son-preference and family planning: Women Using Reproductive Technologies and Spiritual Healers in Urban Middle-Class India | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |