Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India

1. Unifying Perspectives on Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India
Sharada Srinivasan, Shuzhuo Li

2. Being ‘Bare Branches’: Demographic Imbalance, Marriage Exclusion and Masculinity in North India
Paro Mishra

3. Household Division, Intra-generational Inequality and Marriage Prospects of Single Men in Multi-son Families in Rural China
Y. Li, W. D. Li, S. Z. Li

4. ‘Who Said I Was a Forced Bachelor?’ Single Men’s Voices and Strategies in Rural China
Kun Zhang, Danièle Bélanger

5. “Now It Is Difficult to Get Married”: Contextualising Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood in a North Indian Village
Shruti Chaudhry

6. The Sex Ratio Question and the Unfolding of a Moral Panic? Notions of Power, Choice and Self in Mate Selection Among Women and Men in Higher Education in China
Lisa Eklund

7. The Impact of Bride Shortage in South India: Vellala Gounders in Western Tamil Nadu
Judith Heyer

8. Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers
C. Z. Guilmoto

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Demography, Population Economics, Gender Studies