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PROF Navtej Kaur Purewal's Outputs (5)

Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan (2014)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Hashmi, N. (2014). Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(7), 977-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.883274

This article focuses upon perceptions of girls’ education in the family context within which decisions around children’s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls’ education are sha... Read More about Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan.

Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India (2014)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2014). Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 21(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2013.878248

The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an
object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse o... Read More about Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India.