Mara Hvistendahl

Mara Hvistendahl (2020)

Mara Hvistendahl (* 20th century in Minnesota ) is an American science journalist . She has lived in Beijing since 2006 and works as the Asia correspondent for Science magazine . In 2013, she became known to the German-speaking public as the author of the non-fiction book The Disappearance of Women (English title: Unnatural Selection ).

Life

Mara Hvistendahl studied Comparative Literature and Chinese at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and received a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . She traveled to India, Cambodia, Mongolia, Tibet and Bolivia for her reports. She spent more than ten years in China and reported on all scientific topics from biotechnology to archeology . As a freelance journalist, she has written for Harper’s , Popular Science , Scientific American , Financial Times and Foreign Policy magazines, among others . She was the editor of the science magazine Seed and was a visiting professor teaching journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai .

In her first book Unnatural Selection. Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men , she investigated why parents around the world systematically have female fetuses aborted with the help of prenatal diagnostics, especially in India and China, where gender-specific abortions are prohibited but widespread. Hvistendahl's research showed that this selective birth control in Asia claimed over 160 million girls as victims even before they were born, with the result of a growing gender imbalance. Her book, which is both a reportage and a study of society, has been translated into German, Korean and Japanese and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 in the General Nonfiction category.

Book publication

• Unnatural Selection. Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men . PublicAffairs, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-58648-850-5 .

• The disappearance of women. Selective Birth Control and the Consequences . Translated from the English by Kurt Neff. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28009-9 .

Awards

• 2009: National Award for Education Reporting

Web links

• Mara Hvistendahl's personal homepage
• Short biography and reviews of works by Mara Hvistendahl at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Mara Hvistendahl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mara Hvistendah: Unnatural Selection: The Causes and Consequences of Asia's Sex Ratio Imbalance , lecture at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Channel (video on Youtube)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mara Hvistendahl's 'Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men' , Review by Elaine Showalter , Washington Post, July 2, 2012
2. ↑ Tilman Jens : Men among themselves - the fatal story of the disappearance of women ( Memento from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ttt , Das Erste.de (ARD) May 14, 2013
3. ↑ Review by Eva Berendsen: Mara Hvistendahl: The disappearance of women. No matter what it is, the main thing is a boy , FAZ, March 26, 2013
4. ^ Jeanne Rubner: The murderous stain of being a girl , Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 1, 2013
5. ↑ The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction
6. ↑ 2009 EWA contest winners ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.