The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India

By Barbara D. Miller

This revised edition of a book originally published in 1981 studies the power of a culture that shapes family attitudes toward children. Miller herein determines how and why the treatment of children in a certain part of Northern India is based upon their gender. The ritualistic practice of female infanticide is presented with ethnographic depth and accuracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801413710
• ISBN13: 9780801413711
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 201 Pages