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Gendered Reproductive Accountability and Women's Embodied Health: A Narrative Review of Fetal-Sex Blame, Son Preference, In-Law Dynamics, and Integrated Clinical Care

2026-07-03

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<h4>Background: </h4> Women's mental and physical health is often interpreted through a narrow biological lens or through a narrow cultural lens. Both approaches are insufficient. In many settings, girls and women are made accountable not only for their own bodies but also for family honor, fertility, fetal sex, domestic care, emotional stability, and the continuity of marital or kinship systems. Fetal-sex blame i...

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Literature Corpus work: 5ef46f00-ab08-5e6b-9e55-638964ecbbfd
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0203.v1

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