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Author Bledsoe, Caroline H.

Title Contingent lives : fertility, time, and aging in West Africa / Caroline H. Bledsoe with contributions by Fatoumatta Banja ; foreword by Anthony T. Carter.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.96 B646C    Check Shelf
Description xx, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999
Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1999.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
Contents Foreword / Anthony T. Carter -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction -- Ch. 3. Setting, Data, and Methods -- Ch. 4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing -- Ch. 5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing -- Ch. 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body -- Ch. 7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging -- Ch. 8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion -- Ch. 9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations -- Ch. 10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging.
Summary Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.
Subject Birth control -- Gambia.
Family size -- Gambia.
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Gambia.
Reproduction. (DNLM)D012098
Family Planning Services. (DNLM)D005193
Gambia. (DNLM)D005714
Society.
Birth control. (OCoLC)fst00833148
Family size. (OCoLC)fst00920496
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00923183
Gambia. (OCoLC)fst01202705
Anticonceptie.
Vruchtbaarheid.
Gezinsgrootte.
Sociale aspecten.
Geburtenregelung (DE-588)4019593-4
Fertilität (DE-588)4071184-5
Soziale Situation (DE-588)4077575-6
Familiengröße (DE-588)4480441-6
Familienplanung (DE-588)4113510-6
Empfängnisverhütung (DE-588)4070794-5
Kulturanthropologie (DE-588)4133903-4
Gambia (DE-588)4019197-7
Added Author Banja, Fatoumatta.
ISBN 0226058514 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226058511 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226058522 (paper)
9780226058528 (paper)
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