The impossibility of 'justice': Female foeticide and feminst discourse on abortion.

This article discusses legal, social, political and other aspects of female foeticide. While there is a growing feminist unease at the interference of law with sexuality, critiques tend to understand the failure of the legal system to deliver justice as resulting from its sexist interpretation by biased functionaries. On the contrary, law functions by assuming certainty and exactitude through the creation of uniform categories out of a multiplicity of identities and meaning. In India, the issue of abortion has the lexicon of feminist struggle through a very different trajectory from that followed in the West.