Village context, women's status, ad son preference among rural Chinese women

Rural Sociology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-106

  Li, Jianghong ^a   Lavely, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; RURAL SOCIETY; SON PREFERENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

CHINA;

EID: 0037351254     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2003.tb00130.x     Document Type: Article

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