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Gendercide

Introduction

The paper aims to cover the concept of Gendercide with special emphasis on the causes and consequences of gendercide in countries like America and China where it prevails at its peak.

Gendercide- Meaning and Concept

Gendercide is a gender-selective mass killing. The term was first time used by Mary Anne Warren in her book Gendercide: The Implications of Sex, 1985. Warren drew an analogy between the concept of genocide and what she called gendercide (Gendercide Watch, par. 3). Citing the Dictionary of the English language at Oxford, the definition of genocide is the deliberate extermination of a race of people (The ...