书目名称 | The Demographic Masculinization of China |
副标题 | Hoping for a Son |
编辑 | Isabelle Attané |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/908/907329/907329.mp4 |
概述 | Addresses exhaustively the issue of demographic masculinisation in China.Takes account of the 2010 Chinese census data.Provides a comprehensive review of the situation of women in China‘s society? |
丛书名称 | INED Population Studies |
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描述 | This book describes the shortage of girls and women in present day China and focuses on two important features: the sex imbalance in childhood and youth, and the excess mortality of women at various stages of their life. The author analyzes the causes and the processes of a strong preference for sons, which generates discrimination toward females and results in a shortage of girls and women. China’s higher proportion of men than women is a population characteristic that is shared by very few countries in the world. This demographic masculinity is unprecedented in the documented history of human populations, both in scale and its lasting impact on the numbers and the structure of the population. Despite the economic boom of recent years, many families in China still consider girls to be less important than boys. Although Chinese women have become largely emancipated since the 1950s, they still do not have the same opportunities for social achievement as men, and Chinese society remains fundamentally rooted in highly gendered social and family roles. As a consequence, Chinese girl babies who have the misfortune to be born instead of a long-awaited son go by various names, such as |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Care for girls campaign; Demographic discrimination; Demographic masculation in China; Discrimination a |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00236-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-03362-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-00236-1Series ISSN 2214-2452 Series E-ISSN 2214-2460 |
issn_series | 2214-2452 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013 |