‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate
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2022Metadata
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The History of the Family. 2022, 27(4), . https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2022.2132979Abstract
Recent research argues that discriminatory practices unduly inflated female excess mortality during infancy and childhood in historical Europe. This article reviews the existing evidence by (1) evaluating the sources that can be used to study this phenomenon; (2) providing a state-of-the-art account of the prevalence of these discriminatory practices, as well as the factors that explain them; and (3) outlining a research agenda that could fill in the gaps in the literature.