Brigida Garcia (ed.)

Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change

Herausgeber: García, Brígida

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 socioeconomic reasons. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780198294863
• ISBN-10: 0198294867
• Artikelnr.: 21825973

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change in Developing
Countries
* Part I: Overview and Critical Issues
* 1: Alaka Malwade Basu: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change: Some
Possible Interrelationships over Time and Space
* 2: Bhanu B. Niraula and S. Phillip Morgan: Gender Inequality in Two
Nepali Settings
* Part II: Nuptiality, Fertility, and Abortion Practices by Poverty
Status
* 3: Orlandina de Oliveira: Quality of Life and Marital Experiences in
Mexico
* 4: Edith A. Pantelides, Graciela Infesta Dominguez, and Rosa N.
Geldstein: Adolescent Women in Buenos Aires: The Influence of Social
Class and Gender Images on Reproductive Behaviour
* 5: Susheela Singh and Mario Monteiro: Levels of Childbearing,
Contraception, and Abortion in Brazil: Differentials by Poverty
Status
* Part III: Strategies to Alleviate Poverty: Women's Extra-Domestic
Work and Migration
* 6: Anju Malhotra and Deborah S. DeGraff: Daughters and Wives: Marital
Status, Poverty, and Young Women's Employment in Sri Lanka
* 7: Zeba Sathar and Sonalde Desai: Class and Gender in Rural Pakistan:
Differentials in Economic Activity
* 8: Hania Zlotnik: Female Migration in Relation to Female Labour Force
Participation: Implications for the Alleviation of Poverty
* 9: Katherine M. Donato and Shawn Malia Kanaiupuni: Women's Status and
Demographic Change: The Case of Mexico-US Migration
* 10: Michael Tawanda: 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
* Part IV: Health Care Behviour in the Context of Poverty
* 11: Pavalavalli Govindasamy: Poverty, Women's Status, and the
Utilization of Health Services in Egypt
* 12: Sonalde Desai: Maternal Education and Child Health: Evidence and
Ideology