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The Elderly Missing Women Phenomenon: The Consequences of Female Victimization Across the Life Course
Authors: Sehar Ezdi
Editors: Hanna Bowes
Publisher: PALGRAVE, HOUNDMILLS, BASINGSTOKE RG21 6XS, ENGLAND
Publication year: 2019
Book title : Violence Against Older Women - Nature and Extent
Journal name in source: VIOLENCE AGAINST OLDER WOMEN, VOL I: NATURE AND EXTENT
Journal acronym: PALGR STUD VICTIM
Series title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
Volume: 1
First page : 113
Last page: 130
Number of pages: 18
ISBN: 978-3-030-16600-7
eISBN: 978-3-030-16601-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16601-4_7
One of the starkest manifestations of violence against women is the
elderly missing women phenomenon. Missing women, a term introduced by
Amartya Sen in 1990, refers to abnormally high female mortality in
certain parts of Asia and Africa compared to the rest of the world. As
an elderly missing women phenomenon, this chapter conceptualizes the
result of many discriminating factors at each stage of the female life
course, for example, female infanticide before/at birth, gender
discrimination in health and nutrition in childhood, early marriage and
honor killings in young adulthood, domestic violence in adulthood and
accusations of witchcraft in old age. The aim of this chapter is to
examine violence and discrimination against women in a life course
perspective and explain the elderly missing women phenomenon by these
factors.
