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Markets and Malthus : population, gender, and health in neo-liberal times / edited by Mohan Rao, Sarah Sexton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
- Malthus, T. R.
- Population--Economic aspects.
- Population.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- Population policy.
- Neoliberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant for women's rights, including reproductive rights?. The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging from India and China, to Egypt,
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 - Introduction: Population, Health, and Gender in Neo-liberal Times; 2 - A Decade and More after Cairo: Women's Health in a Free Market Economy; 3 - Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National Security, "Environmental Conflict", and the Making of the Cairo Consensus; 4 - The Politics of Abortion: A Note; 5 - An Entangled Skein: Neo-Malthusianisms in Neo-liberal Times; 6 - Neo-liberal Development and Reproductive Health in India: The Making of the Personal and the Political; 7 - A Decade after Cairo in Latin America: An Overview
- 8 - Redefining and Medicalizing Population Policies: NGOs and Their Innovative Contributions to the Post-Cairo Agenda9 - Structural Adjustment, Impotence, and Family Planning: Men's Voices in Egypt; 10 - What has Happened in Africa since Cairo?; 11 - Reproductive Health, Family Planning, and HIV/AIDS: Dangers of (Dis)Integration in Tanzania and Uganda; 12 - China's Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-child Norm, and Masculinization of Child Sex Ratios; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612839603
- 9789386042569
- 9386042568
- 9788132112280
- 8132112288
- 9781282839601
- 1282839608
- 9788132106142
- 8132106148
- OCLC:
- 670429674
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