Unnatural Selection : Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

from shadowofthewind

Mara Hvistenfahl makes the claim, resting on cultural history and western technology, that there are millions of women missing from the world because of abortion and sex selection. I'm not convinced that selective abortion is the culprit here. Although the author points out ultrasounds are cheap,...

from epersonae

I don't remember exactly what bugged me about this book (since I read it several months ago), but what I do remember is (a) author had some sort of hobby-horse (abortion, I think?) and (b) I found myself reading the book about the history of Superman instead. And I'm not really into Superman.

from abycats

Fascinating, detailed, portrait of the societal impact of the vast preference for mail children now that testing is available. A but too much history in India and China for my taste but quite impressed by the thoroughness of the author in determining exactly how and why the imbalance has occurred...