Gender and discrimination : health, nutritional status, and role of women in India /
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| Imprint: | New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: | xxxviii, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7983187 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. (En)gendering Poverty Policy in India
- 2. Women and Agriculture in India: Work and Wages
- 3. Gender, Religion, and the Age at Marriage in India
- 4. Invisibility and Ordeal of Women Workers in India
- 5. Will Increasing Women's Power Reduce Discrimination against Girl Children in South Asia?
- 6. Maternal Literacy and Child Malnutrition in India
- 7. Gender, Poverty, and HIV Transmission in India
- 8. Gender Differences in Early Childhood Feeding Practices: Rural West Bengal
- 9. Health and Nutritional Status of School-Age Children: Some Gender and Age Differentials
- 10. Gender Bias and Family Planning Programme in India
- 11. Heart Disease among South Asians: Role of Gender
- 12. On Some Measures of Gender Discrimination
- 13. Gender Dimorphism: Discrimination in Rural India, 1930-1975
- 14. A New Measure of Gender Bias
- 15. Gender Bias in Mortality?: æAn Update on Missing WomenÆ
- Contributors