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Autore: |
Larsen Mattias.
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Titolo: |
Vulnerable daughters in India : culture, development, and changing contexts / / Mattias Larsen
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Pubblicazione: | New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.850954 |
Soggetto topico: | Female feticide - India |
Sex of children, Parental preferences for - India | |
Women - India - Social conditions | |
Families - India | |
Daughters - India | |
Sexism - India | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Vulnerable daughters in India ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-52054-0 |
9786613832993 | |
0-203-15027-9 | |
1-136-51599-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461815403321 |
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