Gender, Health, and Medical Treatment
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Sex selection abortions have become common particularly in Asia where natality inequality for the girl child is excessively high.... Women in developing and underdeveloped countries are also characterized by high incidence of maternal undernourishment, low birthweight and child undernourishment, particularly of girl children (Sen, 2001).... In the post-structuralist school of thought as Foucault's, which discards the binary categories of man/ woman, tradition/ progress and so on, society considers women as embodiment of social objects that are subject to the ‘male gaze' that is an instrument for subordination by creating binary attitudes of good and bad in order to wield power (Foucault, 2003, originally published in 1977)....