Unwanted daughters : gender discrimination in modern India /

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Imprint:	Jaipur : Rawat Publications, c2010.
Description:	xx, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Sex discrimination against women -- India -- Congresses. Sex discrimination against women -- India, South -- Congresses. Daughters -- Crimes against -- India, South -- Congresses. Sex of children, Parental preferences for -- India, South -- Congresses. Sex ratio -- Congresses. Sex distribution (Demography) -- India -- Congresses. Girls -- India -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Girls -- Social conditions. Sex discrimination against women. Sex distribution (Demography) Sex of children, Parental preferences for. Sex ratio. India. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8116742

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Other authors / contributors:	Sekher, T. V. Hatti, Neelambar, 1940-
ISBN:	8131603237 9788131603239
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Papers presented at a workshop, organized by the editors, at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore in 2005.

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

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