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Women's empowerment and demographic processes : moving beyond Cairo
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- Creator
- edited by Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xix, 386 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780198297314, 0198297319
- OCLC
- ocm43810855
- Based on a seminar which was held in Lund, Sweden, Apr. 21, 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-377) and index.
- 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