Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics

Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics / edited by Sharada Srinivasan, Shuzhuo Li.

This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discuss how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic develop...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Srinivasan, Sharada (Editor), Li, Shuzhuo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development ; 8
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Demography.
Population.
Sociology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Danièle 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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