Saul Halfon

The Cairo Consensus

Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cairo Consensus explores population policy during the 1990s. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, Halfon maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9780739111765
• ISBN-10: 0739111760
• Artikelnr.: 21311450

Autorenporträt

Saul Halfon is assistant professor of science & technology in society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Structured Disunity:
Rethinking Consensus as a Meraphor for "Getting Along" Part 4 Population
Discourses Chapter 5 Over-Populating the World:Discourses on "The
Population Problem," 1945 to the Present Chapter 6 Reading Cairo Chapter 7
Re-Configuring Women's Empowerment :From Politics to Planning Part 8
Technical Practices in the Population Network Chapter 9 Contesting
Surveys:Co-Producing Demography and Population Policy Chapter 10
Standardizing Surveys:Building Consensus through Technical Practice Chapter
11 Narrating Unmet Need Part 12 Instituting the Cairo Regime Chapter 13
Translating Unmet Need into Market Demand:Contraceptive Development after
Cairo Chapter 14 Conclusion:Projecting Population Policy