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Cover: 9781610391511 | Unnatural Selection | Mara Hvistendahl | Taschenbuch | XIX | Englisch
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Unnatural Selection
Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Taschenbuch von Mara Hvistendahl
Sprache: Englisch

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A Slate Best Book of 2011 A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 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 neighbours is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A Slate Best Book of 2011 A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 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 neighbours is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.
Über den Autor
Mara Hvistendahl's writing has appeared in Harper's, the New Republic, Scientific American, the Financial Times magazine, Popular Science, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Times. A correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education and former contributing editor at Seed magazine, Mara has won an Education Writers Association award and been nominated for the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award. She first lived in Asia over a decade ago, when her studies took her to Beijing. She has spent half of the years since then in China, a base from which she reported extensively from around the continent.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIX
314 S.
ISBN-13: 9781610391511
ISBN-10: 1610391519
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hvistendahl, Mara
Hersteller: PublicAffairs
Maße: 211 x 144 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Mara Hvistendahl
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2012
Gewicht: 0,344 kg
Artikel-ID: 106754430
Über den Autor
Mara Hvistendahl's writing has appeared in Harper's, the New Republic, Scientific American, the Financial Times magazine, Popular Science, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Times. A correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education and former contributing editor at Seed magazine, Mara has won an Education Writers Association award and been nominated for the Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award. She first lived in Asia over a decade ago, when her studies took her to Beijing. She has spent half of the years since then in China, a base from which she reported extensively from around the continent.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIX
314 S.
ISBN-13: 9781610391511
ISBN-10: 1610391519
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hvistendahl, Mara
Hersteller: PublicAffairs
Maße: 211 x 144 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Mara Hvistendahl
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2012
Gewicht: 0,344 kg
Artikel-ID: 106754430
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