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Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men
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Unnatural selection : choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men

著者: Mara Hvistendahl
出版商: New York : PublicAffairs, 2011.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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"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  再读一些...
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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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A shocking expos of the causes of Asias massive gender imbalance and its consequences across the globe  再读一些...

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"Kirkus Review," April 15, 2011

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
""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 再读一些...

 
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