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Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization (2023)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2023). Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization. In M. Dawson, & S. Mobayed (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook on Femicide/Feminicide. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202332-33

This chapter outlines some of the key concerns with criminalising sex-selective abortion (SSA) in China and India, highlighting that it offers no identifiable options for sustainable, women-centred, progressive change. Instead, the criminalisation of... Read More about Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization.

The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India (2019)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (in press). The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India. Central Asian Survey, 38(4), 460-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2019.1642850

Rather than studying young men's career- and/or economic-based aspirations, this article explores the obstacles that hinder youths of both sexes in gerontocratic southern Tajikistan and North India from developing the capacity to make their own life... Read More about The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India.