num_pages: 224
description: 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 offemale infanticide is presented with ethnographic depth and accuracy.
language: English
title: The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India
titlecomplete: The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press