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| 文件类型: | 书 |
|---|---|
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Mara Hvistendahl |
| ISBN: | 9781586488505 1586488503 1459614577 9781459614574 |
| OCLC号码: | 657595599 |
| 描述: | xix, 314 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 内容: | Part I. "Everyone has boys now" -- ch. 1. The demographer -- ch. 2. The parent -- ch. 3. The economist -- ch. 4. The doctor -- ch. 5. The imperialist -- Part II. Great idea -- ch. 6. The student -- ch. 7. The doomsayer -- ch. 8. The geneticist -- ch. 9. The general -- ch. 10. The feminist -- Part III. The womanless world -- ch. 11. The bride -- ch. 12. The prostitute -- ch. 13. The bachelor -- ch. 14. The world -- ch. 15. The baby. |
| 责任: | Mara Hvistendahl. |
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"Kirkus Review," April 15, 2011 Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"A hard-hitting, eye-opening study that not only paints a dire future of a world without girls but traces the West's role in propagating sex selection.... Hvistendahl's important, even-handed expose considers all sides of the argument and deserves careful attention and study."
""Unnatural Selection" is an important book and a fascinating read. Mara Hvistendahl is a delightful writer: witty, engaging, and acute. But the tale she tells is deeply disturbing. Asia alone is missing 160 million women and girls, a number equal to the entire female population of the United States. According to Hvistendahl, the culprit is less deeply rooted cultural gender bias than rising wealth, elite attitudes, and Western influence and technology. Development, at least for the coming decades, will produce not only fewer children overall, but als
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