Contingent Lives Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa

Name: Contingent Lives Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
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ISBN: 9780226058511

ISBN-10: 0226058514

ISBN-13: 9780226058511

Edition: 2002

Authors: Caroline H. Bledsoe, Fatoumatta Banja

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Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.

Book details

List price: $117.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Introduction



Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction



Setting, Data, and Methods



Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing



Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing



Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body



Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging



Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion



Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations



Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging


Appendixes


Glossary


References


Index