Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference : : Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines /

Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference : : Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines / / ed. by Philip Kreager, Astrid Bochow.

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductiv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bochow, Astrid,
Charbit, Yves,
Diagne, Alioune,
Heady, Patrick,
Hohmann, Sophie,
Hukin, Eleanor,
Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer A.,
Kreager, Philip,
Kroeker, Lena L.,
Mondain, Nathalie,
Pauli, Julia,
Petit, Véronique,
Randall, Sara,
Roche, Sophie,
Sijpt, Erica van der,
Walters, Sarah,
HerausgeberIn:
Bochow, Astrid,
Kreager, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 36
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Key to Fertility
  • 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000
  • 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity
  • 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce
  • 5. Ambivalent Men
  • 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference
  • 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana
  • 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho
  • 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’
  • 10. Demographers on Culture
  • 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited
  • Index

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