Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving beyond Cairo

by Harriet B. Presser (Editor), Gita Sen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198297314
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/09/2000
Series:	International Studies in Demography
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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 Management in Bangalore.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction1. Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork, Harriet B. Presser and Gita SenPart II. Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment2. Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights, Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala3. Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North, Paula EnglandPart III. Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health4. Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination, Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain5. Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa, Barbara Klugman6. Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants, Sunita KishorPart IV. Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes7. The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context, John Hobcraft8. Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour, Anastasia J. Gage9. Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context, Shireen Jejeebhoy10. The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria, Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak11. Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico, Brígida García12. Migration and Women's Empowerment, Graeme Hugo13. Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective, Noriko O. TsuyaPart V. Future Directions for Population Policy14. Population Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities, Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. JacobsonAppendix. Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus, Harriet B. Presser