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"Son preference" as a book category groups works that explore the cultural, social, political, and personal consequences of valuing male children over female children. Titles in this category range from investigative nonfiction and sociological studies to memoirs and fiction that examine family dynamics, patriarchy, inheritance and lineage systems, reproductive choices and technologies, and practices such as sex-selective abortion, neglect, or differential investment in education and health. These books often situate the phenomenon historically and geographically—looking at communities in South Asia, East Asia, parts of Africa, and diasporas worldwide—while also tracing its intersections with class, religion, law, migration, and modernization. Common themes include the emotional and economic pressures on parents (especially mothers), the impact of skewed sex ratios on societies, efforts at legal reform and activism, and personal stories of resistance, reconciliation, or trauma; the genre encompasses academic analyses, reportage, intimate memoirs, and narrative fiction that humanizes and critiques the practice.

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