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Women, Poverty and Demographic Change Brigida Garcia

This book analyses the specific demographic implications and conditioning factors of women's experience of poverty. By investigating the different experiences that women in developing countries face in attempting to escape from poverty, the contributors illustrate the importance of incorporating the gender perspective into population studies. Higher fertility levels and early nuptiality patterns among the poor are frequently attributed to socio-economic factors. The authors of this book demonstrate the importance of looking at other dimensions, such as the subordinate roles of women in their families of origin and the centrality of motherhood in women's lives. Some chapters also show how gender inequality in educational skills and cultural norms regarding motherhood, marital status and the limiting of physical movement explain why poverty-alleviation strategies such as market work and migration may have different results for men and women. Finally, other authors look into women's autonomy in household decisions as a factor that exerts a strong influence on their ability to obtain maternal and infant health care. Brigida Garcia is Professor-Researcher, Centre for Demographic and urban Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. 2000 - 311 p. £37.50 (£50 to non members)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change in Developing Countries
Brigida Garcia

Women, Poverty and Demographic Change: Some Possible Interrelationships over Time and Space
Alaka Malwade Basu

Gender Inequality in Two Nepali Settings
Bhanu B Niraula and S. Philip Morgan

Quality of Life and Marital Experience in Mexico
Orlandina de Oliveira

Adolescent Women in Buenos Aires: The Influence of Social Class and Gender Images on Reproductive Behaviour
Edith A Pantelides, Graciela Infesta Dominguez, and Rosa N Geldstein

Values and Fertility Change in Japan
Robert D Retherford, Naohiro Ogawa and Satomi Sakamoto

Levels of Childbearing, Contraception, and Abortion in Brazil: Differentials by Poverty Status
Susheela Singh and Mario Monteiro

Daughters and Wives: Marital Status, Poverty and Young Women's Employment in Sri Lanka
Anju Malhotra and Deborah S DeGraff

Class and Gender in Rural Pakistan: Differentials in Economic Activity
Zeba Sathar and Sonalde Desai

Female Migration in Relation to Female Labour Force Participation: Implications for the Alleviation of Poverty
Hania Zlotnik

Women's Status and Demographic Change: The Case of Mexico-uS Migration
Katharine M Donto and Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni

Household Social Dynamics and the Retention of Rural Population: A Malian Case Study of the Link between Patriarchy and the Sustained Ruralization of Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Tawanda

Poverty, Women's Status and the utilization of Health Services in Egypt
Pavalavalli Govindasamy

Maternal Education and Child Health: Evidence and Ideology
Sonalde Desai

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