ISBN:
9783319632759
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (169 pages)
Series Statement:
Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development Ser v.8
Parallel Title:
Print version Srinivasan, Sharada Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India : Macro Demographics Versus Local Dynamics
DDC:
305.42096751 23
Keywords:
China-Population
;
Sex discrimination against women-China
;
Women-China-Social conditions
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Unifying Perspectives on Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Sex Ratio Imbalance in China and India -- 1.3 Approaches to Understanding Consequences of Scarce Women and Surplus Men -- 1.4 Daughter Deficit and What Else? -- 1.4.1 Educated and Unemployed -- 1.4.2 What Women Want -- 1.5 Main Themes Emerging from the Present Collection and Contribution to Literature -- 1.5.1 Numbers and Meanings at the Local Level -- 1.5.2 Women's Empowerment and Daughter Preference -- 1.6 Dealing with Impacts of Scarce Women and Surplus Men -- References -- Chapter 2: Being 'Bare Branches': Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Study Area and Data Collection -- 2.3 Existing Literature on Indian Masculinity -- 2.3.1 Hegemonic Masculinity in Rural North India: Linking Marriage and Sexuality -- 2.4 Bachelors as 'Çhade': The Discourse of Violence and the Missing Dimension of Age -- 2.5 Crisis of Bachelorhood -- 2.6 Bojh and Majbur: Perception of Bachelors -- 2.7 The 'New' Social Strategies of Bachelors -- 2.8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Household Division, Intra-generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-son Families in Rural China -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Household Division -- 3.3 Data -- 3.4 Profile of Single Men -- 3.5 Intra-generational Inequality Among Single Men -- 3.5.1 Family Events and Failure to Marry -- 3.5.2 Household Division and Failure to Marry -- 3.5.3 Family Institution, Failure to Marry and Resource Deprivation -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: 'Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?' Single Men's Voices and Strategies in Rural China -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Context and Approach -- 4.3 Data -- 4.3.1 Study Locations -- 4.3.2 The Fieldwork
Abstract:
4.4 Mobility, Location and Gendered Opportunities for Marriage -- 4.5 Strategies for Seeking Spouses -- 4.5.1 The Old Generation: Conventional and Alternative Approaches to Marriage -- 4.5.2 The Young Generation: Spouse-Seeking on Motorcycles -- 4.5.3 Uxorilocal Marriage: An Alternative? -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: "Now It Is Difficult to Get Married": Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Demographic Context: Sex Ratios and Marriageability -- 5.3 Methods and Fieldsite -- 5.4 Masculinities: Hegemonic, Subordinate and Marginalised -- 5.5 Unable to Marry: The Unemployed Jat Man -- 5.6 Jat Responses to the Difficulties Faced: Bachelorhood or Cross-Regional Marriage? -- 5.7 At the Bottom of the Eligibility Hierarchy: The Chamar Brick-Kiln Worker -- 5.8 Chamar Responses to the Difficulties Faced: Lower Forms of Marriage? -- 5.9 Bachelor Men, Marginalised Masculinities? -- 5.10 Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theorizing the Sex Ratio Question and Mate Selection -- 6.2.1 Conceptualising Choice -- 6.2.2 Conceptualising Self -- 6.3 Methods and Material -- 6.4 The Universality of Marriage? -- 6.5 Fear of Being Leftover: Constructing and Debunking Risk -- 6.5.1 The Utilitarian Woman? -- 6.5.2 The Expressive Man? -- 6.5.3 The Complexity of Choice -- 6.6 Limiting Choice -- 6.7 Averting Risk -- 6.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Villages and the Data -- 7.3 The Impact of Changes on Families with Sons and Families with Daughters -- 7.4 The Problems for Sons
Abstract:
7.5 The Problems for Daughters -- 7.6 The Likelihood of a Decrease in Daughter Deficit and Bride Shortage -- 7.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 In the Beginning Was Anthropology -- 8.3 The Demographer's Turn -- 8.4 Predicting a Marriage Squeeze -- 8.5 The Demographics of a Squeeze -- 8.6 What Do Simulations Tell Us That We Did Not Know? -- 8.7 Conclusion: From Demography Back to Anthropology -- References -- Index
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