Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa /

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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bledsoe, Caroline H.
Otros Autores: Banja, Fatoumatta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Colección:Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
Temas:
Birth control > Gambia.
Family size > Gambia.
Fertility, Human > Social aspects > Gambia.
Family planning services.
Family Planning Services
Reproduction
Régulation des naissances > Gambie.
Familles > Dimension > Gambie.
Fécondité humaine > Aspect social > Gambie.
Services de planification familiale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Abortion & Birth Control.
Society.
Family planning services
Birth control
Family size
Fertility, Human > Social aspects
Geburtenregelung
Anticonceptie.
Vruchtbaarheid.
Gezinsgrootte.
Sociale aspecten.
Gambia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction; 3. Setting, Data, and Methods; 4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing; 5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing; 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body; 7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging; 8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion; 9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations; 10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging; Appendixes; Glossary.

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