Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu by Sharada Srinivasan
Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu

Sharada Srinivasan

Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu

Sharada Srinivasan

302 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

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This book is ideal for readers interested in understanding the societal and structural factors behind gender discrimination and sex-selective practices in regions with paradoxical high development indicators and persistent gender inequality.

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This book is about girls who are denied the right to live or to be born in India, and it asks why and how such a situation has come about. Daughter elimination in the form of sex selection, female infanticide and neglect is not an aberration or an...

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