Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in Asia

by Elisabeth Croll

Book Overview

This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.

It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary Asia. In the first major study available of this emotive and sensitive issue, Elisabeth Croll investigates the extent of discrimination against female...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415247659
• ISBN13: 9780415247658
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"