Harriet Presser / Gita Sen (eds.)

Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes ' Moving Beyond Cairo '

Herausgeber: Presser, Harriet B; Sen, Gita

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yet critiques of available data argue that traditional womens-status indicators, such as education and employment, are often not sensitive enough to capture the nuances of gender power relations and the ways in which they govern womens and mens reproductive behaviour. This book moves forward to the complex task of conceptualizing, measuring, and analysing womens empowerment. In laying this groundwork, it provides critically important insights into the causes and consequences of population change, including migration. The book combines conceptual and empirical research with policy directions and considers the relevance of economic, social, and cultural contexts for the health and well-being of women, adolescents, and children. The countries under study are of both the North and the South. This book represents state-of-the-art knowledge on the two-way linkages between womens empowerment and demographic processes.

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This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributors identify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure women's empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297314
• ISBN-10: 0198297319
• Artikelnr.: 22031124

Autorenporträt

Harriet Presser is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality at the University of Maryland. Gita Sen is Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Mangement in Bangalore, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. Introduction
* 1: Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen: Women's Empowerment and
Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork
* Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment
* 2: Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala: Empowering Women for Reproductive
Rights
* 3: Paula England: Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of
the North
* Part III. Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health
* 4: Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain: Reproductive Health and
the Demographic Imagination
* 5: Barbara Klugman: Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The
Making of Health Policy in South Africa
* 6: Sunita Kishor: Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the
Survival and Health of Their Infants
* Part IV. Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes
* 7: John Hobcraft: The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child
Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a
Post-Cairo Context
* 8: Anastasia J. Gage: Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic
Behaviour
* 9: Shireen Jejeebhoy: Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its
Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context
* 10: Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak:
The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in
Nigeria
* 11: Brígida García: Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and
Autonomy in Mexico
* 12: Graeme Hugo: Migration and Women's Empowerment
* 13: Noriko O. Tsuya: Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and
Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective
* Part V. Future Directions for Population Policy
* 14: Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. Jacobson: Population Policy and
Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities
* Appendix. Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus