Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in AsiaThis 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. |
Contents
A weaker destiny daughter discrimination | 1 |
Son preference | 7 |
Daughter discrimination | 10 |
Family planning | 13 |
Gender reasoning | 16 |
Targeting daughters | 18 |
Demographic narratives missing girls | 21 |
Republic of Korea | 40 |
Neglect and survival | 103 |
The generations expectations and entitlements | 106 |
Planning families | 108 |
The intergenerational contract | 111 |
Sonparent support | 113 |
Doubleloss daughters | 121 |
Daughter entitlements | 127 |
Familial exclusion | 129 |
Taiwan | 45 |
Vietnam | 47 |
India | 49 |
Bangladesh | 63 |
Pakistan | 67 |
Ethnographic voices disappointing daughters | 70 |
China | 71 |
Welcoming a son | 75 |
Rural demands | 80 |
Urban preference | 85 |
Daughter neglect | 87 |
India | 90 |
The quest for a son | 91 |
A lesser welcome | 96 |
Interpreting gender hierarchy and difference | 132 |
Cultures of gender | 133 |
Divisions of labour | 140 |
Gendered perceptions | 143 |
Gender and development | 148 |
The girl child agendas and campaigns | 153 |
The girl child | 154 |
Indias girl child | 159 |
Chinas girl child | 165 |
Daughter empowerment a new destiny? | 182 |
Notes | 188 |
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