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Contraception across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Andrew Russell
This book brings a new perspective to the study of contraception, by collecting together in one volume leading experts in the fields of contraception, family planning and reproductive health.
Marc Notes: Implications for kinship, gender relations & social life; Cloth @ $65.00. Review Quotes: "Every library should consider it in their purchasing lists for readers of the thinking kind." --"Faculty Magazine""The greatest strength of the volume is the way it suggests major weaknesses in the cross-national survey research that has come to dominate the field of demography." --"Population Studies""Readers ... will enjoy the constructive contribution of "Contraception Across Cultures"." --"Social Science and Medicine"Biographical Note: Edited by Andrew Russell, University of Durham and Elisa Sobo, Trauma Research Scientist, Children's Hospital, San Diego Mary Thompson DFID-GuyanaPublisher Marketing: Contraception is an issue of considerable concern to a great many heterosexually active people. Yet the impact of contraceptive technologies in the world today, in particular their implications for kinship, gender relations, and other aspects of social life, receives little scholarly attention.
Contributor Bio: Russell, Andrew Russell is lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham. Contributor Bio: Thompson, Mary Thompson, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Contributor Bio: Sobo, Elisa J Elisa J. Sobo, PhD, is professor of anthropology at San Diego State University.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9781859733868 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 266 |
| Dimensions | 138 × 216 × 12 mm · 420 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Russell, Andrew |
| Editor | Sobo, Elisa J. |
| Editor | Thompson, Mary |
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