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Larsen, Mattias

 
9780415597517: Vulnerable Daughters in India: Culture, Development and Changing Contexts

Synopsis

This book analyses the problem of 'missing girls' as intimately linked to a process of change and development in India in which culture plays a significant role. This is a result of an institutional change of the family in which the relative importance of sons has increased.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mattias Larsen is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from where he obtained his PhD. He specializes in the economic sociology of development; his areas of research include rural development, social dimensions of the economy, inequality, gender, institutionalist theory and comparative methodology.

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