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The increasing number of 'missing girls' in much of South and East Asia provides the disturbing focus of this key title. It is unique in its positive attention to daughter discrimination in these regions.

Much has been written of China's peasant revolution, less has been written on the peasant experience of reform. In From Heaven to Earth Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualisations of time and change and examines the new and recent desires which motivate peasant households in China, the new and strenuous demands which are g...

This unique and groundbreaking book examines the reasons why large numbers of women seem to be "missing" from the populations of countries across Asia. Bringing together demographic data and anthropological field studies to paint a vivid picture of the social costs of daughter discrimination across Asia today, "Endandered Daughters" reveals the multiple ways in which girls are disadvantaged, from excessive child mortality to the withholding of...

Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development in China since 1979, and links the Chinese peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualizations of time and change.