Sex preference for children in a Meifu Li Community in Hainan, China
Sex preference for children in a Meifu Li Community in Hainan, China
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DOI：
10.1080/00324720127695
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Li, JH
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作者：
Lavely, W;Li, JK;Li, JH
儿童的性别偏好取决于制度和经济背景，包括家庭制度。虽然汉族的父系联合家庭制度往往贬低女儿，但中国南方许多少数民族的家庭制度有利于女性自主和更平等的性别偏好。海南岛的李女士就是一个例子。我们检查了户口登记册，并对一个相对偏僻的高原小镇的妇女进行了调查，该小镇居住着美孚族（黎族）。美富族主要依赖轮耕农业，允许青春期女性享有相当大的性自由，并且正如预期的那样，其子女的性别比例比海南其他人口更为平等。在该社区的一个拥有得天独厚的灌溉土地的小村庄里，存在着一种偏好男性的趋势，这表明性别偏好对当地的经济状况很敏感。
Sex preferences for children are contingent on institutional and economic contexts, including family system. While the patrilineal joint family system of the Han Chinese tends to devalue daughters, the family systems of many of China's southern minorities are conducive to female autonomy and more equal sex preferences. The Li of Hainan Island provide an example. We examined household registers and surveyed women in a relatively isolated highland township inhabited by the Meifu, a Li sub-group. The Meifu depend largely on swidden agriculture, permit considerable sexual freedom to adolescent females, and, as expected, have more equal sex ratios among their children than other Hainan populations. There was a tendency for a preference for males in the one hamlet in the community with an exceptional endowment of irrigated land, suggesting that sex preferences are sensitive to local economic circumstances.