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Changing Family Size in England and Wales
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 59.00This important new study uses demographic, historical and geographical techniques to explore the declines in both infant mortality and in fertility in England and Wales between 1891 and 1911. The book's sometimes surprising conclusions will be of interest to all historians of Britain and of demography. more...
Shaping Abortion Discourse
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. more...
Reproducing Empire
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers... more...
The Genius Factory
Random House Publishing Group 2005; US$ 14.95It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice?nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank?opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists,... more...
Japan: The Childless Society?
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 64.95Disillusioned by long hours at home alone and by demands from the older generation, Japanese women are marrying later, resulting in a sharp decline in the Japanese birth rate. Muriel Jolivet considers the reasons why Japanese women are finding it increasingly difficult to accept the terms and conditions of motherhood. Japan: The Childless Society... more...
The New Population Problem
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95This book is based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on "Creating the Next Generation: Social, Economic, and Psychological Processes Underlying Fertility in Developed Countries," held at the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. The papers address some of the antecedents and consequences of the recent steep declines in... more...
Encyclopedia of Birth Control
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 85.00In addition to full coverage of traditional techniques of contraception and a discussion of the history of current practices, this encyclopedia includes an appendix that briefly outlines the contemporary contraceptive practices in every major country in the world. more...
Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910-39
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 115.00Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945. It examines the nature and achievements of the South African birth-control movement in pre-apartheid South Africa, including the establishment... more...
Souls, Bodies, Spirits
Greenwood Publishing Group 1998; US$ 120.00A history of the abortion abolition campaign from Roe v Wade to the 1996 election, the author explores the subject historically, sociologically, theologically and politically, arguing for deepened understanding of pro-lifers. The Catholic, social movement and direct action angles are all examined. more...
Research on reproductive Health at WHO
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 27.00This report presents an overview of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction's (HRP) work over the biennium 2002-2003. Chapter 1 looks at activities in the area of family planning. Chapter 2 outlines research activities carried out in the context of WHO's Making Pregnancy Safer initiative. Research... more...









