Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics

Srinivasan, Sharada; Li, Shuzhuo

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

164

Mole

Inglês

9783319875156

15 a 20 dias

454

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Chapter 1. Unifying perspectives: Understanding scarce women and surplus men in China and India (Sharada Srinivasan and Shuzhuo LI).- Chapter 2. Being 'Bare Branches': Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India (Paro Mishra).- Chapter 3. Household Division, Intra-Generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-Son Families in Rural China (Yan LI, W.D. LI, and Shuzhuo LI).- Chapter 4. "Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?" Single Men's Voices and Strategies in Rural China (Kun Zhang and Daniele Belanger).- Chapter 5. "Now it is Difficult to Get Married": Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village (Shruti Chaudhry).- Chapter 6. The Sex Ratio Question and the Unfolding of a Moral Panic? Notions of Power, Choice and Self in Mate Selection among Women and Men in Higher Education in China (Lisa Eklund).- Chapter 7. The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu (Judith Heyer).- Chapter 8. Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation between Anthropologists and Demographers (Christophe Z. Guilmoto).
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China and India;Demographic Pyramids and Imbalance;Households and Inequality;Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity;Partner Selection;Sex Ratio