Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline

ISBN-13: 9780198294443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 392 str.

Caroline Bledsoe; Jane I. Guyer; Susana Lerner

Opis

Traditionally, women have been the sole focus of fertility studies. Ranging broadly over ethnographies, national surveys, and historical texts, this volume breaks imaginative new ground in grappling with the immense variation in male reproduction across the world.

Recenzje

This volume of high-quality contributions marks the long-overdue recognition in demography of the male as a subject of equivalent significance and complexity to the the female in matters of human reproduction. ... This volume should be required reading for demographers. ... Nicolas Townsend outstanding chapter on Botswana, ... By problematizing a fundamental biological category, this volume succeeds in putting many fresh issues onto the research agenda.

O autorze

Caroline Bledsoe is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Susana Lerner is Professor of Demography and Coordinator of the Research Program on Population Policies, Institutional Mediations, and Reproductive Behavior at the Center for Demographic and Urban Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. Jane I. Guyer is Director of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University and Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.