Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415247658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Elisabeth Croll

Opis

This work asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary Asia. The author investigates the extent of discrimination against female children in Asia and shifts the focus of attention firmly from son-preference to daughter-discrimination. The book paints a picture of daughter discrimination across Asia today, from excessive child mortality to the witholding of health care and education on the basis of gender. It argues that the increasing availability of sex-identification technologies will serve only to supplement older forms of infanticide and neglect. Startlingly, it reveals that, in China, India and across Asia, daughter discrimination is actually on the increase despite rising economic development, declining fertility and the generally improved status of women. This account of an appalling phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world should be essential reading for all those interested in gender in contemporary society.

Spis treści

1. A Weaker Destiny: Daughter discrimination 1.1 Son Preference 1.2 Daughter DIscrimination 1.3 Family Planning 1.4 Gender Reasoning 1.5 Targeting Daughters 2. Demographic Narratives: 'Missing Girls' 2.1 China 2.2 Republic of Korea 2.3 Taiwan 2.4 Vietnam 2.5 India 2.6 Bangladesh 2.7 Pakistan 3. Ethnographic Voices: Disappointing daughters 3.1 China: Wishing for a son 3.2 Welcoming a Son 3.3 Rural Demands, Urban Preference 3.4 Daughter Neglect 3.5 India: The quest for a son 3.6 A Lesser Welcome 3.7 Neglect and survival 4. The Generations 4.1 Expectations and entitlements for planning families 4.2 The Inter-generational Contract 4.3 Son-parent support 4.4 Double-loss Daughters 4.5 Daughter Entitlements 4.6 Familial Exclusion 5. Interpreting Gender: Hierarchy and Difference 5.1 Cultures of Gender 5.2 Divisions of Labour 5.3 Gendered Perceptions 5.4 Gender Development 6. The Girl Child: Agendas and campaigns 6.1 Girls' Rights 6.2 The Girl Child 6.3 India's Girl Child 6.4 China's Girl Child 7. Daughter Empowerment: A new destiny?

O autorze

Elizabeth Croll