Women's empowerment and demographic processes : moving beyond Cairo / edited by Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen.

Contributor(s): Presser, Harriet B | Sen, Gita Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2000. Description: xii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0198297319; 9780198297314Subject(s): Women in development -- Congresses | Women's rights -- Congresses | Women -- Health and hygiene -- CongressesDDC classification: 304.6 LOC classification: HQ1240 | .W6674 2000Online resources: WorldCat details

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TOC Women's empowerment and demographic processes: laying the groundwork / Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen -- Empowering women for reproductive rights / Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala -- Conceptualizing women's empowerment in countries of the North / Paula England -- Reproductive health and the demographic imagination / Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain -- Empowering women through the policy process: the making of health policy in South Africa / Barbara Klugman -- Empowerment of women in Egypt and links to the survival and health of their infants / Sunita Kishor -- The consequences of female empowerment for child well-being: a review of concepts, issues, and evidence in a post-Cairo context / John Hobcraft -- Female empowerment and adolescent demographic behaviour / Anastasia J. Gage -- Women's autonomy in rural India: its dimensions, determinants, and the influence of context / Shireen J. Jejeebhoy -- The role of gender context in shaping reproductive behaviour in Nigeria / Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak -- Economic restructuring, women's work, and autonomy in Mexico / Brígida García -- Migration and women's empowerment / Graeme Hugo -- Women's empowerment, marriage postponement, and gender relations in Japan: an intergenerational perspective / Noriko O. Tsuya -- Population policy and women's empowerment: challenges and opportunities / Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. Jacobson -- Appendix: Demography, feminism, and the science-policy nexus (reprint of paper published in Population and development review) / Harriet B. Presser.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU MPRHGD Corner	Non-fiction	304.6 WOM 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		22506

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Based on a seminar which was held in Lund, Sweden, Apr. 21, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Women's empowerment and demographic processes: laying the groundwork / Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen --
Empowering women for reproductive rights / Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala --
Conceptualizing women's empowerment in countries of the North / Paula England --
Reproductive health and the demographic imagination / Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain --
Empowering women through the policy process: the making of health policy in South Africa / Barbara Klugman --
Empowerment of women in Egypt and links to the survival and health of their infants / Sunita Kishor --
The consequences of female empowerment for child well-being: a review of concepts, issues, and evidence in a post-Cairo context / John Hobcraft --
Female empowerment and adolescent demographic behaviour / Anastasia J. Gage --
Women's autonomy in rural India: its dimensions, determinants, and the influence of context / Shireen J. Jejeebhoy --
The role of gender context in shaping reproductive behaviour in Nigeria / Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak --
Economic restructuring, women's work, and autonomy in Mexico / Brígida García --
Migration and women's empowerment / Graeme Hugo --
Women's empowerment, marriage postponement, and gender relations in Japan: an intergenerational perspective / Noriko O. Tsuya --
Population policy and women's empowerment: challenges and opportunities / Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. Jacobson --
Appendix: Demography, feminism, and the science-policy nexus (reprint of paper published in Population and development review) / Harriet B. Presser.

Summary:
This volume extends the research programme on womens' empowerment originally brought to prominence at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. The book refines the Read more...

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