UNNATURAL SELECTION: CHOOSING BOYS OVER GIRLS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF A WORLD FULL OF MEN (OLD TITLE: THE X-Y PROBLEM: TECHNOLOGY, CHOICE, AND GENDER TO ORDER

Book ID/图书代码： 12844008B29960

English Summary/英文概要：

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果世界上絕大部份都是男性，會是什麼樣的世界？
現今男女比例失衡的危機漸漸浮現，會導致什麼難以想像的後果？
美國《高等教育紀事報》駐中國記者Mara Hvistendahl
預見人類失調的未來，以此書警告世人！

繼金融風暴、能源危機、全球暖化之後，本書揭露了全球男女比例失調的嚴重性。
聯合國發佈的研究指出，性別的種種議題非常需要受到重視。報告強調，性別失衡最終可能會導致社會動蕩不安。由於現代科技的普及，如今鑒定胎兒性別已變得非常容易，也因此助長了性別失衡問題。新生兒性別失衡問題從上世紀80年代以來在亞洲部分地區就一直呈上升趨勢。儘管一些國家立法禁止醫生透露胎兒性別，但許多婦女仍想設法提前獲悉胎兒性別。一旦得知自己懷的是女孩，就會選擇流產。一般認為只有亞洲人才偏好生男孩，但其實在高加索地區、非洲、拉丁美洲，甚至是美國都有這種觀念。
隨著科技的進步，未出生孩子的性別可以在母親受孕之前便做出決定。以往重男輕女一度被視為是受貧困所逼，出於無奈，但作者透過這本書進一步指出富裕國家的一些政策正漸漸加深男女的失調危機，導致男多女少。作者於書中指出許多人類文明的滅亡，歷史可見證男多女少的社會，相對的戰爭、糧食危機、疾病傳染的比例也跟著增加。
作者強調性別比例失衡也將導致：男性針對婦女的暴力增加，人蛇集團拐賣女性的問題等等，進一步使社會問題惡化，造成社會緊張加劇。作者的研究觀察向公眾反映了此一全球現象，警示所有人要注意到即將來臨的失衡危機。(YM & Chris)

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普林斯頓大學公共暨國際事務學院院長
雷勒，科學作家，著有《大腦決策手冊：該用腦袋的哪個部分做決策？》
史帝芬．杜伯納，《蘋果橘子經濟學》與《超爆蘋果橘子經濟學》的作者之一
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’A hard-hitting, eye-opening study that not only paints a dire future of a world without girls but traces the West’s role in propagating sex selection ... Hvistendahl’s important, even-handed exposé considers all sides of the argument and deserves careful attention and study.’---Kirkus Reviews 《科克斯書評》

“Unnatural Selection is an important book and a fascinating read. Mara Hvistendahl is a delightful writer: witty, engaging, and acute. But the tale she tells is deeply disturbing. Asia alone is missing 160 million women and girls, a number equal to the entire female population of the United States. According to Hvistendahl, the culprit is less deeply rooted cultural gender bias than rising wealth, elite attitudes, and Western influence and technology. Development, at least for the coming decades, will produce not only fewer children overall, but also many fewer girls. The result is a future for many parts of the world, from India to China, Azerbaijan to Albania, where brides are much more likely to be bought, women are much more likely to be trafficked, and men are much more likely to be frustrated. For the present, we must confront the stark reality that the availability of ultrasound and ready abortion are sharply reducing the number of women in the world.”---Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton University Anne-Marie Slaughter，普林斯頓大學公共暨國際事務學院院長

“A fascinating and thoroughly researched book on a most important subject. The staggering population imbalances described by Hvistendahl should be of concern to all.”---Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide 雷勒，科學作家，著有《大腦決策手冊：該用腦袋的哪個部分做決策？》

“Yes, it’s a rigorous exploration of the world’s ‘missing women,’ but it’s more than that, too: an extraordinarily vivid look at the implications of the problem. Hvistendahl writes beautifully, with an eye for detail but also the big picture. She has a fierce intelligence but, more important, a fierce intellectual independence; she writes with a hard edge but no venom—rather, a cool and hard passion.”---Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics 史帝芬．杜伯納，《蘋果橘子經濟學》與《超爆蘋果橘子經濟學》的作者之一

About the Author/作者介绍： Mara Hvistendahl’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, the Financial Times magazine, The New Republic, Popular Science, the South China Morning Post magazine, the Walrus, Scientific American, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, I.D., Virginia Quarterly Review, Seed, and other publications.
After receiving a B.A. from Swarthmore College in comparative literature and Chinese, Mara attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on an international reporting scholarship, graduating in 2003 with an M.S. in magazine writing. She speaks excellent Mandarin and Spanish and even better English. Since 2004, she has been based in Shanghai, where she currently covers greater China for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Mara Hvistendahl的文章經常刊載在《Harper專業財經雜誌》、《新共和國》(The New Republic)、《金融時報》(Financial Times magazine)、《科學人》(Scientific American)、《科技新時代》(Popular Science)、《科學雜誌》(Science)和《南華早報》(South China Morning Post)雜誌和其他全球知名刊物。
早期Mara在學術聯盟斯沃斯莫爾學院(Swarthmore College)獲得了漢語和比較文學學士學位，隨後獲得全球新聞播報獎學金和哥倫比亞大學新聞學碩士。Mara能說一口流利中文、西班牙語和英語。現為美國《高等教育紀事報》(The Chronicle of Higher Education)駐派上海記者。

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