Mara Hvistendahl

Mara Hvistendahl is an American writer. Her book Unnatural Selection was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Life

She graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Columbia University in New York City. She is an editor for Science magazine.

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://news.sciencemag.org/author/mara-hvistendahl
  2. ↑ Showalter, Elaine (July 1, 2011). "Mara Hvistendahl’s ‘Unnatural Selection,’ about a world with too many men". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Is Hvsitendahl a whistleblower, warning us of a terrible disaster we must take action to avert — and if so, what kind of action would that be? Or is she a Cassandra, describing an unavoidable destiny for humankind that we cannot prevent? In either case, she has written a disturbing, engrossing book that we can add to the tottering shelf of problems that keep us up at night.
  3. ↑ Kurlantzick, Joshua (June 13, 2011). "Unnatural Selection". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Some developing nations have begun to recognise the need for action. With recent surveys showing its ratios worsening, India has created a new body to monitor hospitals. China has also gingerly begun to discuss relaxing its one child policy. But even if wiser policies follow it will take a generation for these unbalanced nations to get their populations back in balance. And in that time, those millions of angry, unmarriageable men could cause plenty of havoc.
  4. ↑ Last, Jonathan V. (June 24, 2011). "The War Against Girls". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against baby girls.
  5. ↑ Deng, Chao (June 24, 2014). "Writing China: Mara Hvistendahl, ‘And the City Swallowed Them’". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

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