Elizabeth Croll

Endangered Daughters (eBook, ePUB)

Discrimination and Development in Asia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The increasing number of 'missing girls' in much of South and East Asia provides the disturbing focus of this key title. It is unique in its positive attention to daughter discrimination in these regions.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134538829
• Artikelnr.: 42642092

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Croll

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Weaker Destiny: Daughter discrimination 1.1 Son Preference 1.2
Daughter DIscrimination 1.3 Family Planning 1.4 Gender Reasoning 1.5
Targeting Daughters 2. Demographic Narratives: 'Missing Girls' 2.1 China
2.2 Republic of Korea 2.3 Taiwan 2.4 Vietnam 2.5 India 2.6 Bangladesh 2.7
Pakistan 3. Ethnographic Voices: Disappointing daughters 3.1 China: Wishing
for a son 3.2 Welcoming a Son 3.3 Rural Demands, Urban Preference 3.4
Daughter Neglect 3.5 India: The quest for a son 3.6 A Lesser Welcome 3.7
Neglect and survival 4. The Generations 4.1 Expectations and entitlements
for planning families 4.2 The Inter-generational Contract 4.3 Son-parent
support 4.4 Double-loss Daughters 4.5 Daughter Entitlements 4.6 Familial
Exclusion 5. Interpreting Gender: Hierarchy and Difference 5.1 Cultures of
Gender 5.2 Divisions of Labour 5.3 Gendered Perceptions 5.4 Gender
Development 6. The Girl Child: Agendas and campaigns 6.1 Girls' Rights 6.2
The Girl Child 6.3 India's Girl Child 6.4 China's Girl Child 7. Daughter
Empowerment: A new destiny?