Unnatural Selection

selection” rather than “abortion,”
    protests vs.
    right to abort remains “priority issue,”
    United Nations World Population Conference
    United States
    PGD sex selection becoming acceptable
    preferred selected sex is female
    sex selection among Asians in
    state bans on sex selective abortion
    and violence
    Urban elites
    U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
    Uzbekistan

    Vasectomies
    Venisse, Edmond
    Verma, I. C.
    Viel, Benjamin
    Vietnam
    gender imbalance in
    kidnapped girls in Chinese brothel
    males killed off by Vietnam War
    naming of aborted fetuses
    selecting for daughters for cash
    Tan Loc
    women marrying men from other countries
    Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office
    Violence
    in American Wild West
    female vigilantes in India
    and fenqing anger
    and lack of women
    male surplus in Asia will likely increase

    military “war games” in modern China
    nineteenth-century Chinese rebellions
    Virgins
    Vishwanath, L. S.

    Wahren, Carl
    Wang, Coco
    Wang, Feng
    â€œWar games” among bachelors in modern China
    Watering the Neighbour’s Garden (Attané and Guilmoto)
    Watson, James L.
    Wattenberg, Ben
    Weaver, Warren
    Wilcox, John G.
    Wild West and violence
    Wipro GE Medical Systems
    Women
    advantage of increases as become scarcer
    Beijing Conference declaration
    changes for in China
    demographic effect of weeding out
    and economic development
    effect on in male majority society
    in India
    lack of and violence
    not better off in South Korea
    selected in future for cash value
    taking positions in population control movement
    Working women and lower birth rates
    World Bank
    in India
    and South Korea
    World Health Organization
    Wren, Christopher S.
    Wu, Bing
    Wu, Gang
    Wu, Pingzhang

    Yang, Wen-shan
    Yeong, Sug-heo
    Yunnan women
    Yunnus, Muhammad

    Zamindars
    Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
    Zhang, Mr. and Patriot Club
    Zhang, Jiehai
    Zhang, Luoxing
    Zhang, Mei
    Zhang, Weiqing
    Zhou, Enlai
    Zhou, Guangchuan
    Zhu, Chuzhu
    Zhu, Hui’e
    Zhu, Wei Xing
    Zhuhai sex scandal

Mara Hvistendahl is a Beijing-based correspondent for Science. Her award-winning writing has also appeared in Harper’s, Scientific American , Popular Science, the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. Proficient in both Spanish and Chinese, she has spent half of the past decade in China, where she has reported on everything from archaeology to the space program. A former contributing editor at Seed magazine and journalism professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, Hvistendahl sits on the advisory board of Round Earth Media, an organization founded to promote international journalism. This is her first book.

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