Bare branches: the security implication of Asia's surplus male population/
Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer
- Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004.
- x, 329 p. ; 24 cm.
- (BCSIA studies in international security) .
The gender dimension of environmental and human security. -- Offspring sex selection in historical perspective: from infanticide to sex-selective abortion and the problem of "missing females" -- India's "missing females" -- China's "missing females" -- Bare branches of high-sex-ratio societies: theory and cases. -- Bare branches in the twenty-first century: policy implications. -- Conclusion: The security calculus of high-sex-ratio societies.
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Sex discrimination against women Sex distribution Social conflict