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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790480603321

Autore

Larsen Mattias.

Titolo

Vulnerable daughters in India : culture, development, and changing contexts / / Mattias Larsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-52054-0

9786613832993

0-203-15027-9

1-136-51599-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

306.850954

Soggetti

Female feticide - India

Sex of children, Parental preferences for - India

Women - India - Social conditions

Families - India

Daughters - India

Sexism - India

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. [209]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Problem; 2 Intergenerational Interests and Systematic Case Comparisons; 3 Exploration and Specification of the Context; 4 Structural Continuity and the Role of the Son; 5 Contextual Changes in Two Paths to Low CSR; 6 Structure, Change and Uncertainty; Appendix; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction between the continued importance of the cultural factors which for so long have established that a son is necessary, and socio-economic changes that are challenging the



importance of these very same factors. This contradiction entails an uncertainty over sons fulfilling expectations which

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Record Nr.

UNISANNIOSBL0438612

Titolo

Scritti storici in memoria di Paolo Lino Zovatto / raccolti e presentati da Amelio Tagliaferri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : A. Giuffrè, 1972

Descrizione fisica

332 p., [45] c. di tav. : 1 ritr. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

709.2

Soggetti

Archeologia cristiana

Veneto - Condizioni economiche e sociali - Storia

Zovatto, Paolo Lino

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.DONI DEMM               116

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Istituto di storia economica dell'Università di Trieste; Deputazione di storia patria per il Friuli