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

• Autore: Larsen Mattias.
• 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
• 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.: 9910790480603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II