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Population politics and development : from the policies to the clinics / Lisa Ann Richey.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richey, Lisa Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth control--Tanzania.
- Birth control.
- Women in development.
- Population policy.
- Tanzania--Population policy.
- Tanzania.
- Women in development--Tanzania.
- Birth control--Africa.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across Africa, with particular emphasis on case studies from Tanzania.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Strategic ambiguity : the historical context of the Tanzanian national population policy
- Population policy implementation and family planning
- Humanistic family planning : governing population at the grassroots
- Identities, expectations and control : negotiating traditional practices and modern methods
- Contraceptive technologies for planning local families
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230602924
- 9780230602922
- OCLC:
- 147981088
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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