Overview
- 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?
Part of the book series: INED Population Studies (INPS, volume 1)
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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 Pandi (literally "awaiting a son"), Laidi ("a son will follow"), or Yehao ("she'll do too"). The book provides a comprehensive review of the situation of women in China’s society and shows that discrimination against girls and women is part of a system of norms and values that traditionally favours males.
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Keywords
- Care for girls campaign
- Demographic discrimination
- Demographic masculation in China
- Discrimination against girls in early childhood
- Discrimination practices and factors in masculinization
- Existence Chinese women under threat
- Faster growing number of males
- Gender studies
- High death rate Chinese girl infants
- Life-long inequality
- Maternal mortality
- Sex-selective abortion
- Shortage of wives
- The status of women in traditional Chinese society
- Unbalanced sex ratio chinese population
- Women and suicide
- Women, feminism and femininity
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Visible Demographic Discrimination
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A System of Norms and Values that Favours Males
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Demographic Masculinization of China
Book Subtitle: Hoping for a Son
Authors: Isabelle Attané
Series Title: INED Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00236-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00235-4Published: 10 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03362-4Published: 09 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00236-1Published: 26 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2214-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2214-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 198
Additional Information: Original French edition published by INED
Topics: Demography, Gender Studies, Population Economics, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law