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Product DescriptionThis 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.Review`Barbara Miller's book, The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural India, is one of the most powerful books I have read on the subject in recent times... It is meticulously researched and a very readable book. There is almost no aspect of the subject that has not been covered by the author... it is a book to be taken very seriously.' The Book Review, Vol.XXI Number 8About the AuthorBarbara D. Miller, Director, Women's Studies Program, George Washington University.