The missing girls and women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan a sociological study of infanticide, forced prostitution, political imprisonment, "ghost brides," runaways, and thrownaways, 1900-2000s /

Main Author: Huang, Hua-Lun, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10535625
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The study of missing females
  • Conceptualization of missing females : a classification system
  • Missing females at high risk of vanishing permanently
  • Female political prisoners
  • Slain baby girls
  • Ghost brides
  • Missing females with some chances to re-emerge
  • Comfort women
  • Trafficked women and girls
  • Runaways/thrownaways
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.