"Is 40 the new 30? Increasing reproductive intentions and fertility rates beyond age 40 Éva Beaujouan and Tomáš Sobotka Acknowledgments: Eva Beaujouan's contribution was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project 'Later Fertility in Europe' (Grant agreement no. P31171-G2…
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"Is 40 the new 30? Increasing reproductive intentions and fertility rates beyond age 40 Éva Beaujouan and Tomáš Sobotka Acknowledgments: Eva Beaujouan's contribution was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project 'Later Fertility in Europe' (Grant agreement no. P31171-G2…
The idea that some women and men prefer not to have children is often met with sharp criticism and incredulity by the public and mainstream media. This book includes collection of essays through which thirteen female writers explain why they have chosen to eschew motherhood. An…
One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all -- a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children -- before their biological clock stopped tic…
The dialectics of disruption: paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Rachel Scherrer -- Designing a woman-centered health care approach to pregnancy loss: lessons from feminist models of childbirth / Linda Layne --…
Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their gen…
This book highlights the ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology, including pharmaceuticals…
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renew…
This title highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being.
Reproductive Health and Gender Equality offers a much needed empirical study of women's reproductive health. The author challenges the prevailing bioscience and public health models by linking women's reproductive health to gender equality measures and development policies. The …