Bare branches:the security implications of Asia's surplus male population
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MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | c2004. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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BCSIA studies in international security |
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Carrier Form: | x, 329 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 0262083256 |
Index Number: | D730 |
CLC: | D730.868 |
Call Number: | D730.868/H886 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-314) and index. The gender dimension of environmental and human security. -- Offspring sex selection in historical perspective: from infanticide to sex-selective abortion and the problem of "missing females" -- India's "missing females" -- China's "missing females" -- Bare branches of high-sex-ratio societies: theory and cases. -- Bare branches in the twenty-first century: policy implications. -- Conclusion: The security calculus of high-sex-ratio societies. |