Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change

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ISBN: 9780198294863 | 0198294867
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/11/2000

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This book analyzes 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.

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change in Developing Countries

(18)

Brigida Garcia

Part I. Overview and Critical Issues

(54)

Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change: Some Possible Interrelationships over Time and Space

(21)

Alaka Malwade Basu

Gender Inequality in Two Nepali Settings

(31)

Bhanu B. Niraula

S. Philip Morgan

Part II. Nuptiality, Fertility, and Abortion Practices by Poverty Status

(70)

Quality of Life and Marital Experiences in Mexico

(20)

Orlandina de Oliveira

Adolescent Women in Buenos Aires: The Influence of Social Class and Gender Images on Reproductive Behaviour

(18)

Edith A. Pantelides

Graciela Infesta Dominguez

Rosa N. Geldstein

Levels of Childbearing, Contraception, and Abortion in Brazil: Differentials by Poverty Status

113

(30)

Susheela Singh

Mario Monteiro

Part III. Strategies to Alleviate Poverty: Women's Extra-domestic Work and Migration

143

(118)

Daughters and Wives: Marital Status, Poverty, and Young Women's Employment in Sri Lanka

145

(30)

Anju Malhotra

Deborah S. DeGraff

Class and Gender in Rural Pakistan: Differentials in Economic Activity

175

(18)

Zeba Sathar

Sonalde Desai

Female Migration in Relation to Female Labour Force Participation: Implications for the Alleviation of Poverty

193

(24)

Hania Zlotnik

Women's Status and Demographic Change: The Case of Mexico--US Migration

217

(26)

Katharine M. Donato

Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni

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

243

(18)

Michael Tawanda

Part IV. Health Care Behaviour in the Context of Poverty

261

(42)

Poverty, Women's Status, and the Utilization of Health Services in Egypt

263

(23)

Pavalavalli Govindasamy

Maternal Education and Child Health: Evidence and Ideology

286

(17)

Sonalde Desai

Index

303

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Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change

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