1st Edition
Vulnerable Daughters in India Culture, Development and Changing Contexts
By Mattias Larsen
Copyright 2011
250 Pages
by
Routledge India
250 Pages
by
Routledge India
250 Pages
by
Routledge India
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In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction between the continued importance of the cultural factors which for so long have established... Read more
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. The Problem 2. Intergenerational Interests and Systematic Case Comparisons 3. Exploration and Specification of the Context 4. Structural Continuity and the Role of the Son 5. Contextual Changes in Two Paths to Low CSR 6. ‘Structure, Change and Uncertainty. Appendix. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
Biography
Mattias Larsen is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from where he obtained his PhD. He specializes in the economic sociology of development; his areas of research include rural development, social dimensions of the economy, inequality, gender, institutionalist theory and comparative methodology.
