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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783658503321

Autore

Croll Elisabeth <1944-2007., >

Titolo

Endangered daughters : discrimination and development in Asia / / Elisabeth Croll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-53882-0

1-134-53883-9

0-203-17021-0

0-203-13228-9

1-280-40122-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

305.23

Soggetti

Family size - Asia

Sex of children, Parental preferences for - Asia

Girls - Asia - Social conditions

Daughters - Asia - Social conditions

Sex discrimination - Asia

Women in development - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; A weaker destiny: daughter discrimination; Demographic narratives: 'missing girls'; Ethnographic voices: disappointing daughters; The generations: expectations and entitlements; Interpreting gender: hierarchy and difference; The girl child: agendas and campaigns; Daughter empowerment: a new destiny?; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary Asia. In the first major study available of this emotive and sensitive issue, Elisabeth Croll investigates the extent of discrimination against female children in Asia and shifts the focus of



attention firmly from son-preference to daughter-discrimination.This book brings together demograph