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My name is Imogen Brown and I am a student editor from the United States. I am a freshman at Rice University planning on studying Women's, Gender and Sexuality studies. I am interested in film, theology, medical humanities, and music history, specifically in East Coast punk, as well as the Third Wave feminist movements of the 1990s.

This semester, I'm considering editing an article on the missing women of China, and an article on China's one child policy.

Missing women of China: I have been fascinated with the missing women phenomenon ever since reading Amartya Sen’s article “100 Million Women are Missing” for PJHC last semester. I wanted to focus on China specifically, due to the causatory relationship between the One Child Policy and the missing women phenomenon.

Scholarly References

Hesketh, Therese, Li Lu, and Zhu Wei Xing. “The Effect of China’s One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years.” New England: The New England Journal of Medicine, September 15, 2005.

Hesketh, Therese, Li Lu, and Zhu Wei Xing. “China’s Excess Males, Sex Selective Abortion, and One Child Policy: Analysis of Data from 2005 National Intercensus Survey.” The BMJ, April 9, 2009.

Mosher, Steven W. A Mother’s Ordeal : One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy / Steven W. Mosher. First edition. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.

Hershatter, Gail. “State of the Field: Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century.” The Journal of Asian Studies 63, no. 4 (2004): 991–1065. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4133198.

Cai, Yong, and William Lavely. “China’s Missing Girls: Numerical Estimates and Effects on Population Growth.” China Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 13–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23461902.

XIE, KEVIN. “The ‘Missing Girls’ From China: Reforms Are Too Little, Too Late.” Harvard International Review 36, no. 2 (2014): 33–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43649267.

Gupta, Monica Das. "Explaining Asia's “Missing Women”: A New Look at the Data." Population and development review 31, no. 3 (2005): 529-535.

Das Gupta, Monica. "Family systems, Political Systems and Asia's ‘Missing Girls’ : The Construction of Son Preference and its Unravelling." Asian Population Studies 6, no. 2 (2010): 123-152.

Smolin, David M. "The Missing Girls of China: Population, Policy, Culture, Gender, Abortion, Abandonment, and Adoption in East-Asian perspective." Cumb. L. Rev. 41 (2010): 1.

Bulte, Erwin, Nico Heerink, and Xiaobo Zhang. "China's One‐Child Policy and ‘The Mystery of Missing Women’: Ethnic Minorities and Male‐biased Sex Ratios." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 73, no. 1 (2011): 21-39.

Sen, A. (2021, May 26). More than 100 million women are missing. The New York Review of Books. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/12/20/more-than-100-million-women-are-missing/