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Managing Reproductive Life : Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality / ed. by Soraya Tremayne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2001]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800734050
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.6/32
LOC classification:
  • GN487
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Agency and Identity -- 1. Emotion, Agency and Access to Healthcare: Women’s Experiences of Reproduction in Jaipur -- 2. From International Policy to Local Reality: Women’s Reproductive Health Strategies in El Alto, Bolivia -- 3. Motherhood, Fertility and Ambivalence among Young Prostitutes in Thailand -- 4. Biological Symptoms of Social Unease: the Stigma of Infertility in London Sex Workers -- Part Two: Fertility and Parenthood -- 5. The Impact of Male Migration on Fertility Decisions and Outcomes in Northern Burkina Faso -- 6. Menstruation, Birth Observances and the Couple’s Love Among the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru -- 7. Looking for a Child: Coping with Infertility in Ado-Odo, South-Western Nigeria -- 8. The Meaning of Children in Hong Kong -- Part Three: Policy and Vulnerable Groups -- 9. Scientific Conceptualisations of Childhood and Youth: Trends and Issues -- 10. Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Towards A Framework for Action -- 11. Teenage Pregnancy and the Moral Geography of Teesside, UK -- 12. The Reproductive Health of Refugees: Lessons Beyond ICPD -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific that they are often incomprehensible to outsiders. In this book a group of anthropologists set out to throw new light on the dynamics of human reproduction in the world today, looking at the intricate ways that people manage their reproductive life across different cultures, and highlighting the wider meaning of human reproduction and its impact on social organization. The importance of human agency, ethnic boundaries, the regulation of gender relations, issues of fertility and infertility, the significance of children and motherhood and the problems of two large vulnerable social groups, youth and refugees, are all considered in their broader social contexts.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Agency and Identity -- 1. Emotion, Agency and Access to Healthcare: Women’s Experiences of Reproduction in Jaipur -- 2. From International Policy to Local Reality: Women’s Reproductive Health Strategies in El Alto, Bolivia -- 3. Motherhood, Fertility and Ambivalence among Young Prostitutes in Thailand -- 4. Biological Symptoms of Social Unease: the Stigma of Infertility in London Sex Workers -- Part Two: Fertility and Parenthood -- 5. The Impact of Male Migration on Fertility Decisions and Outcomes in Northern Burkina Faso -- 6. Menstruation, Birth Observances and the Couple’s Love Among the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru -- 7. Looking for a Child: Coping with Infertility in Ado-Odo, South-Western Nigeria -- 8. The Meaning of Children in Hong Kong -- Part Three: Policy and Vulnerable Groups -- 9. Scientific Conceptualisations of Childhood and Youth: Trends and Issues -- 10. Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Towards A Framework for Action -- 11. Teenage Pregnancy and the Moral Geography of Teesside, UK -- 12. The Reproductive Health of Refugees: Lessons Beyond ICPD -- Bibliography -- Index

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Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific that they are often incomprehensible to outsiders. In this book a group of anthropologists set out to throw new light on the dynamics of human reproduction in the world today, looking at the intricate ways that people manage their reproductive life across different cultures, and highlighting the wider meaning of human reproduction and its impact on social organization. The importance of human agency, ethnic boundaries, the regulation of gender relations, issues of fertility and infertility, the significance of children and motherhood and the problems of two large vulnerable social groups, youth and refugees, are all considered in their broader social contexts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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