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Author:   Richard Anker ,  Marya Buvinic ,  Nadia H. Youssef
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780415592840

ISBN 10:   0415592844
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   26 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part I: Overview 1. Introduction 2. Demographic Change and the Role of Women: A Research Programme in Developing Countries Part II: Conceptualizing and Measuring Women’s Roles 3. The Allocation of Women’s Time and its Relation to Fertility 4. Class and Historical Analysis for the Study of Women and Economic Change Part III: Social and Cultural Dimensions Influencing Women’s Roles 5. Female Power, Autonomy, and Demographic Change in the Third World 6. Family Structure and Women’s Reproductive and Productive Roles: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues 7. A Social Anthropological Approach to Women’s Roles and Status in Developing Countries: the Domestic Cycle Part IV: Women’s Roles and their Relationship to Fertility and Mortality 8. The Interrelationship Between the Division of Labour in the Household, Women’s Roles and their Impact on Fertility 9. Women’s Work and their Status: Rural Indian Evidence of Labour Market and Environmental Effects on Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality Part V: Economic Dimensions Influencing Women’s Roles 10. Women and the Urban Labour Market 11. Sex Discrimination in the Urban Labour Markets: Some Propositions based on Indian Evidence

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