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100	1		_aHvistendahl, Mara.
245	1	0	_aUnnatural selection : _bchoosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men / _cMara Hvistendahl.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _c2011.
300			_axix, 314 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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 neighbors 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPart I. "Everyone has boys now" -- ch. 1. The demographer -- ch. 2. The parent -- ch. 3. The economist -- ch. 4. The doctor -- ch. 5. The imperialist -- Part II. Great idea -- ch. 6. The student -- ch. 7. The doomsayer -- ch. 8. The geneticist -- ch. 9. The general -- ch. 10. The feminist -- Part III. The womanless world -- ch. 11. The bride -- ch. 12. The prostitute -- ch. 13. The bachelor -- ch. 14. The world -- ch. 15. The baby.
650		0	_aDemographic transition _zChina.
650		0	_aSex determination, Genetic _zChina.
650		0	_aBirth control _zChina.
650		0	_aSex discrimination against women _zChina.
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