Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India: Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics

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​This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic development and globalization, gender, class, caste, families, migration and work. The chapters offer micro-level analyses contextualized in larger processes of change and push further existing understandings of the consequences of the demographic imbalance between men and women in China and/or India, particularly from a gender perspective. As such this book will be of interest to scholars and students in population studies, sociology, international development, gender studies, and Asian studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Unifying Perspectives on Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India (Sharada Srinivasan, Shuzhuo Li)....Pages 1-23 Being ‘Bare Branches’: Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India (Paro Mishra)....Pages 25-46 Household Division, Intra-generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-son Families in Rural China (Y. Li, W. D. Li, S. Z. Li)....Pages 47-66 ‘Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?’ Single Men’s Voices and Strategies in Rural China (Kun Zhang, Danièle Bélanger)....Pages 67-83 “Now It Is Difficult to Get Married”: Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village (Shruti Chaudhry)....Pages 85-104 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 (Lisa Eklund)....Pages 105-125 The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu (Judith Heyer)....Pages 127-144 Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers (C. Z. Guilmoto)....Pages 145-161 Back Matter ....Pages 163-164