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008 110209s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011004471
020 $a9781586488505 (hardback)
020 $a1586488503 (hardback)
020 $a9781586489915 (e-book edition)
020 $a1586489917 (e-book edition)
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050 00 $aHB1064.A3$bH87 2011
082 00 $a304.6/60951$222
084 $aSOC032000$aPOL000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHvistendahl, Mara.
245 10 $aUnnatural selection :$bchoosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men /$cMara Hvistendahl.
260 $aNew York :$bPublicAffairs,$c2011.
263 $a1105
300 $axix, 314 p. ;$c25 cm.
520 $a"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aDemographic transition$zChina.
650 0 $aSex determination$zChina.
650 0 $aBirth control$zChina.
650 0 $aSex discrimination against women$zChina.
852 00 $bglx$hHB1064.A3$iH87 2011