Available Motherhood: Legal technologies, `state of exception' and the dekinning of `war-babies' in Bangladesh.

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abortion • adoption • Bangladesh • law • motherhood • `state of exception' • `war-babies'

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Available Motherhood: Legal technologies, `state of exception' and the dekinning of `war-babies' in Bangladesh. / Mookherjee, Nayanika.
In: Childhood, Vol. 14, No. 3, 08.2007, p. 339-354.

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