Contraception across Cultures

Technologies, Choices, Constraints

By: Andrew Russell (Editor), Mary Thompson (Editor), Elisa J. Sobo (Editor)

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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 relatively little scholarly attention. 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. Contributors look at the social, economic, political and cultural contexts in which contraceptive providers and recipients make decisions about whether and what forms of contraception to use. User perspectives (whether those of recipients or providers of contraceptive services) are taken seriously, as are the perspectives of policy-makers and development experts. With its in-depth, case-study approach, this challenging book will appeal to practitioners and planners in the fields of family planning and reproductive health, as well as to students and academics of applied and medical anthropology, health studies, gender and development studies, or anyone interested in the social, cultural and ethical issues raised by contraceptive technologies.

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"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

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Approaches and Methods	p. 2
Introdiction: Contraception across Cultures	p. 3
Notes	p. 21
References	p. 22
Psychosocial Data and Cross-Cultural Analyses: Challenges to Anthropology and Contraceptive Research	p. 27
References	p. 47
Responding to Reality: the Efficacy of Anthropological and Participatory Methods for the Implementation of Sustainable Contraceptive Programmes	p. 51
References	p. 75
Contraception in Its Political and Economic Contexts	p. 80
Fertility Running Wild: Elite Perceptions of the Need for Birth Control in White-Ruled Rhodesia	p. 81
Notes	p. 97
References	p. 100
A Clinic in Conflict: a Political Economy Case Study of Family Planning in Haiti	p. 103
Notes	p. 123
References	p. 125
Contraceptive Policy and Practice: User Perspectives	p. 128
'weak Blood' and 'crowded Bellies': Cultural Influences on Contraceptive Use among Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel	p. 129
Notes	p. 154
References	p. 156
New Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in the Galilee	p. 161
Notes	p. 175
References	p. 176
My Body, My Problem': Contraceptive Decision-Making among Rural Bangladeshi Women	p. 179
References	p. 195
Contraceptive Policy and Practice: Provider Perspectives	p. 198
Ubekistan in Transition-Changing Concepts in Family Planning and Reproductive Health	p. 199
References	p. 219
Family Planning or Reproductive Health? Interpreting Policy and Providing Family Planning Services in Highland Chiapas, Mexico	p. 221
Notes	p. 239
References	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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