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Sex Selection & Pre Birth Elimination Of Girl Child, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Sex Selection & Pre Birth Elimination Of Girl Child, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Professor Vibhuti Patel
Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act was enacted in 1994 as a result of pressure created by Forum Against Sex-determination and Sex –preselection. But it was not implemented. After another decade of campaigning by women’s rights organisations and public interest litigation filed by CEHAT, MASUM and Dr. Sabu George, The Pre-natal Diagnostics Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Amendment Act, 2002 received the assent of the President of India on 17-1-2003. The Act provides “for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or …
Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Deborah A. Sommer
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Aids And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic, Thomas Long
Aids And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic, Thomas Long
Thomas Lawrence Long
Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to …
The Unbearable Withness Of Being: On The Essentialist Blind-Spot Of Anti-Ontotheology, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
The Unbearable Withness Of Being: On The Essentialist Blind-Spot Of Anti-Ontotheology, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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