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Title Contraception across cultures : technologies, choices, constraints / edited by Andrew Russell, Elisa Sobo and Mary S. Thompson.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.96 C764CA    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; [v. 22]
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 22.
Contents Introduction : contraception across cultures / Andrew Russell and Mary S. Thompson -- Psychosocial data and cross-cultural analyses : challenges to anthropology and contraceptive research / Mary S. Willis and Marion Pratt -- Responding to reality : the efficacy of anthropological and participatory methods for the implementation of sustainable contraceptive programmes / Joshua Levene -- Fertility running wild : elite perceptions of the need for birth control in white-ruled Rhodesia / Amy Kaler -- A clinic in conflict : a political economy case study of family planning in Haiti / M. Catherine Maternowksa -- 'Weak blood' and 'crowded bellies' : cultural influences on contraceptive use among Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel / Jennifer Phillips Davids -- New reproductive rights and wrongs in the Galilee / Rhoda Kanaaneh -- My body, my problem : contraceptive decision-making among rural Bangladeshi women / Nancy Stark -- Uzbekistan in transition : changing concepts in family planning and reproductive health / Monika Krengel and Katarina Greifeld -- Family planning or reproductive health? : interpreting policy and providing family planning services in highland Chiapas, Mexico / Mary S. Thompson.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Contraception -- Cross-cultural studies.
Contraception -- Social aspects.
Added Author Thompson, Mary S.
Russell, Andrew, 1958-
Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-
ISBN 1859733816
1859733867 paperback £14.99
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