Madison Barlow Mrs. Burns English 10 Honors April 10‚ 2013 Female Infanticides in China For many decades China has been carrying out brutal actions among female infants which are known to be female infanticides. Female infanticides started in 1957 when China’s Chairman Mao Zedong wanted the country’s population to stay under six million for many years (Jimmerson). Leaders then came to a realization that a long term action would have to take place. Therefore they proposed a law stating that a
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Women are seen as objects‚ and are often undermined in our society. More specifically the roles of the female body have been manipulated and changed to make women feel inferior to men. The essays “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood and “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Male-Female Roles” by Emily Martin‚ both portray the female body and the use of the female body in a way that is inferior to that of a man’s body. These essays also both use a persuasive approach
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Female Foeticide In India‚ welfare measures like empowerment of women‚ reservation in Parliament‚ free education to girl child and a lot of other woman progressive initiative‚ do not make sense when we look at cases of female foeticide. There are only 933 females for every 1000 males against global figure of 1060 females per 1000 males. Sex ratio is a composite indicator of woman’s status in a society. If we analyse state wise sex ratio‚ it is most disturbing to note that the States like
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Diffrnce in female infanticide and foeticide Oct 2012 article http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-loses-3-million-girls-in-infanticide/article3981575.ece Latest : june 2013 http://digitaljournal.com/article/353738 Rural/urban : http://lawquestinternational.com/alarming-sex-ratio-and-problem-female-foeticide-and-infanticide-india India and china http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml Website on infanticide >> https://sites.google.com/a/mtholyoke.edu/female-foeticide/artifact-3
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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You are probably thinking what female infanticide is‚ female infanticide is when an infant is killed within the 24 hours of the birth. Female infanticide takes place mostly in third world countries. This process is so common‚ mostly happen in poor society. Female infanticide is leading to imbalance of sex ratio. There are more males then females. This is going to give females more power and dowry system will end. There are bad things to female infanticide too‚ there will be very less girls
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Female Infanticide and Foeticide-A crime against god’s will P. Nagesh‚ K. Venkatesh‚ G.V.S. Kishore ‚ D. Mohan kalyan. Abstract— One of the most developed in the 3rd world countries is republic of India. Even as India has witnessed unprecedented economic growth in the last decade the conditions of millions of Indian women and girl children continue to be deplorable .The unbelievable fact is that India stood in 2nd place in female infanticide( very after china)
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Female Foeticide in India What is female foeticide? The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. Coupled with prospective parents desperate for a boy child‚ and physicians who are carrying out these
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Female foeticide. “Spend five hundred rupees now save five lakhs later “ -Slogan of ultrasound sex-determination clinics. Since the advent of ultrasound and detection technique for sex-determination 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India‚ according to a study conducted recently in India‚ the first systematic study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team. A shocking picture emerges-every year‚ about 50‚000 unborn girls-one in every
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| Activism Project | Female Sexuality | | Leisa Thornton | 5/2/2011 | The pleasures and rights of a woman’s sexual freedom‚ and doing it safely was my activism project main objective. I endeavored to educate woman concerning these issue in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. This topic can be simultaneously controversial and exciting. What is female sexuality? Female sexuality encompasses a broad range of topics‚ including female sexual identity and sexual behavior‚ the physiological
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