TY - BOOK AU - Hudson, Valerie M. AU - Boer, Andrea M. den TI - Bare branches: the security implication of Asia's surplus male population SN - 0262083256 U1 - 304.6095 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - The MIT Press KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Sex distribution KW - Social conflict N1 - The gender dimension of environmental and human security. -- Offspring sex selection in historical perspective: from infanticide to sex-selective abortion and the problem of "missing females" -- India's "missing females" -- China's "missing females" -- Bare branches of high-sex-ratio societies: theory and cases. -- Bare branches in the twenty-first century: policy implications. -- Conclusion: The security calculus of high-sex-ratio societies ER -