Unwanted daughters : gender discrimination in modern India /
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Imprint: | Jaipur : Rawat Publications, c2010. |
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Description: | xx, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8116742 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction-Unwanted Daughters: Gender Discrimination in Modern India
- 1. Risky Lives: Indian Girls Caught between Individual Rationality and Public Good
- 2. Inter-generational Interests, Uncertainty and Discrimination: Declining Child Sex Ratios in India
- 3. From 'Fertility Control' to 'Gender Control'?: Evidences of Daughter Discrimination in Rural South India
- 4. Factors Influencing the Use of Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques and the Sex Ratio at Birth in India
- 5. Imbalance in Sex Ratio in Rural Tamil Nadu: A Case Study of Salem District
- 6. Traditions in Transformation: Emerging Son Preference Attitudes among the Nairs of Kerala
- 7. Status of the Girl Child and Son Preference in Madurai
- 8. Implications of Declining Sex Ratio on Marriage Squeeze of India
- 9. Active and Passive Elimination of Girl Child: Findings from Rural Haryana
- 10. Across-Region Marriages: Poverty, Female Migration and Sex Ratio
- Index