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Portrait Lisa Eklund. Photo: Emma Lord.

Lisa Eklund

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Portrait Lisa Eklund. Photo: Emma Lord.

Understanding marriage squeezes – Sex ratio imbalance, gender and social policy in China

Author

  • Lisa Eklund

Editor

  • Ravinder Kaur

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

145-169

Publication/Series

Too many men, too few women: Social Consequences of the Gender Imbalance in India and China

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Orient Blackswan

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • marriage squeeze
  • gender
  • social policy
  • China

Status

Published

Project

  • Family life and intimate relations of young adults in the context of a shortage of women

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-81-250-6249-3