ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses upon the debate incurred by the ultrasound scan in terms of the choices available to South Asian women in Britain. The scan, sex selection and choice have evoked a debate around the ethics and cultural politics which have been framed a deviant 'otherness' which pose further questions to the way in which women's agency and choice have been understood. The chapter highlight the manner in which the awareness and increasing accessibility to new reproductive technologies has altered the ways in which son preference is discussed and been understood publicly and privately. The interviews in this chapter were conducted with women in the West Midlands in Britain from a variety of generations, and from a range of marital and reproductive situations and experiences. The chapter suggests that there is an acute discrepancy between the assumptions made by medical practitioners about South Asian women's reproductive positionalities and their agency as they perceive it.
