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This chapter examines the cultural reproduction of daughter aversion from a generational perspective. It is based on longitudinal research with ten girls from childhood into adulthood in the district Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Children as much as adults are embedded in the micro-contexts of everyday lives in which gendered practices are reproduced, and they are acutely aware of the differential treatment meted out to them. Cultural reproduction of daughter aversion is intergenerational. It manifests differently as girls move through the life course, largely because of the dynamic intersection of relations of gender and age. The chapter concludes by emphasizing a child-centred approach that would allow girls’ voices to actively inform development analysis and policy to tackle daughter aversion and discrimination.
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Srinivasan, S. (2016). Growing Up Unwanted: Girls’ Experiences of Gender Discrimination and Violence in Tamil Nadu, India. In: Huijsmans, R. (eds) Generationing Development. Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3_12
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