La masculinisation des naissances est un phénomène récent lié à la sélection prénatale en
fonction du sexe. Cet article fait le point sur l'état de la recherche récente à propos des …

Are predominantly Muslim societies distinctly disadvantaged in democratization? If so, why?
The article presents a straightforward cross-national examination of the link between Islam …

Beyond criminology?/Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs--Towards a political economy of
harm: states, corporations and the production of inequality/Steve Tombs and Paddy Hillyard …

India is in a phase of demographic transition. As per the 1991 census, the population of the
elderly in India was 57 million as compared with 20 million in 1951. There has been a sharp …

Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of
gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist …

Provisional estimates from the 2001 census of India, which showed unusually high sex
ratios for young children, have sparked renewed concern about the growing use of sex …

This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset,
several times larger than the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over …

In a series of papers in the late 1980s, Amartya Sen claimed that about 100 million women
were" missing," referring to the number of females who had died as a result of unequal …

This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of
daughter discrimination-a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world …

Relative to developed countries and some parts of the developing world, most notably sub-
Saharan Africa, there are far fewer women than men in India and China. It has been argued …