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

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Other Authors: Presser, Harriet B., Sen, Gita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.