Mara Hvistendahl

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

Hvistendahl speaks at the New America Foundation in February 2020.

She graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Columbia University in New York City. She is former contributor for Science magazine. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, The Intercept and Foreign Policy.^[1]

Works

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. PublicAffairs. 2011. ISBN 978-1-58648-991-5. ^[2]^[3]^[4]
And The City Swallowed Them, Deca^[5]
The Scientist and The Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage. New York: Riverhead, 2020.

References

^ "Mara Hvistendahl". Science | AAAS. Jul 1, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Deng, Chao (June 24, 2014). "Writing China: Mara Hvistendahl, 'And the City Swallowed Them'". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

External links

Official website
"Mara Hvistendahl: Unnatural Selection". World Policy Institution. June 9, 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
Q&A with Mara Hvistendahl, author of And the City Swallowed Them

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[1] "Mara Hvistendahl". Science | AAAS. Jul 1, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

[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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