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16 UCLA Women's L.J. 1 (2007)
(Not) Reproducing the Cultural, Racial and Embodied Other: A Feminist Response to Canada's Partial Ban on Sex Selection

handle is hein.journals/uclawo16 and id is 5 raw text is: ARTICLES (NOT) REPRODUCING THE CULTURAL, RACIAL AND EMBODIED OTHER: A FEMINIST RESPONSE TO CANADA'S PARTIAL BAN ON SEX SELECTION Maneesha Deckhal I. INTRODUCTION Western feminist attention to reproductive rights and their repercussions for female bodies has primarily concentrated on gender issues shaped by sexism.2 Other equality dimensions of reproductive issues have been less quick to appear within femi- nist discussions and thus within larger debates about the ethics of a particular reproductive practice. When we think of what re- productive rights signifies, many of us think of the right to choose abortion, which has been a priority for white, middle- class women, rather than forced sterilization or treatment or the right to access to abortion services, which disproportionately af- fect low-income and racialized women as well as women with dis- 1. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. This Article has benefited from its presentation at the Feminist Legal Theory Workshop on Genetic Manipulation and Enhancement Technologies, Emory Law School, January 27-28, 2006, the Feminism & Law, Diversity & Law, and Health Law & Policy Workshop Series, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, February 25, 2005, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law Junior Scholars Feminist Workshop, May 3, 2005. I wish to thank the organizers and participants at these workshops for their comments as well as Shannon Elliott and Layli Antinuk for research assistance. 2. An important element of postcolonial analysis is to interrogate liberal legal- ism's adoption of the West/non-West binary and the corresponding assumptions of superiority and inferiority that attach to it. See, e.g., RATNA KAPUR, EROTIC JUS- TICE: LAW AND THE NEW POLICS OF POSTCOLONIALISM 23 (2005). In using the terms West and non-West, Western and non-Western, I do not mean to entrench this dichotomy, but rather to locate sex selection as an issue influenced adversely by this paradigm.

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