Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Mara Hvistendahl

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics science sociology challenging informative slow-paced

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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 ti...

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