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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bledsoe, Caroline H.
Other Authors: Banja, Fatoumatta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Series:Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
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