Introduction -- Female philanthropy and feminism before the welfare state: family law, and the politics of names … -- Benevolence and female volunteerism -- Performing child welfare : philanthropy and feminism from the Damas to Eva Perón … -- Juvenile delinquency, patriarchy, and female philanthropy -- The depression and the rise of the welfare state -- At the …

Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 … girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the … time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for …