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Portrait Lisa Eklund. Photo: Emma Lord.

Lisa Eklund

Head of department | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Portrait Lisa Eklund. Photo: Emma Lord.

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

Author

  • 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.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

724-741

Publication/Series

Global Public Health

Volume

13

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

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

Keywords

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

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1744-1706