Mattias Larsen

Gebundenes Buch

Vulnerable Daughters in India

Culture, Development and Changing Contexts

Beschreibung

This book analyses the problem of 'missing girls' as intimately linked to a process of change and development in India in which culture plays a significant role. This is a result of an institutional change of the family in which the relative importance of sons has increased.

Autor

Mattias Larsen is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from where he obtained his PhD. He specializes in the economic sociology of development; his areas of research include rural development, social dimensions of the economy, inequality, gender, institutionalist theory and comparative methodology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780415597517
• ISBN-10: 041559751X
• Artikelnr.: 30881397