Unwanted daughters : gender discrimination in modern India / T.V. Sekher and Neelambar Hatti -- Risky lives : Indian girls caught between individual rationality and public good / Tulsi Patel -- Inter-generational interests, uncertainty and discrimination : declining child sex ratios in India / Mattias Larsen, Neelambar Hatti and Pernille Gooch -- From 'fertility control' to 'gender control'? : Evidences of daughter discrimination in rural South India / T.V. Sekher, Neelambar Hatti and Preethi Bhat -- Factors influencing the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques and the sex ratio at birth in India / P.N. Mari Bhat and A.J. Frances Zavier -- Imbalance in sex ratio in rural Tamil Nadu : a case study of Salem District / C.P. Prakasam -- Traditions in transformation : emerging son preference attitudes among the Nairs of Kerala / S. Sudha, S. Khanna, S. Irudaya Rajan and R. Srivastava -- Status of the girl child and son preference in Madurai / Mumtaj Begum and Christianna Singh -- Implications of declining sex ratio on marriage squeeze of India / Priyajit Samaiyar and William Joe -- Active and passive elimination of girl child : findings from rural Haryana / Sutapa Agrawal and Sayeed Unisa -- Across-region marriages : poverty, female migration and sex ratio / Ravinder Kaur.
Summary:
Papers presented at a workshop, organized by the editors, at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore in 2005.
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