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Japan: The Childless Society?
Taylor and Francis 2013; 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...
Pregnancy and Abortion Counselling
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 35.95Pregnancy and Abortion Counselling is written for professionals who give information and support to women deciding whether to terminate or continue with their pregnancy. The authors provide a comprehensive review of the social, moral and legal issues surrounding contraception and abortion and offer clear guidelines for establishing good practice.... more...
Family Planning in the Legacy of Islam
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 210.00How has the Islamic view of marriage, family formation and child rearing developed and adapted over the centuries? Is contraception just permitted or actively encouraged? The family is the basic social unit of Islamic society. Even without compelling population pressures, there has been concern with spacing and family planning. This book is the result... more...
The Means of Reproduction
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00A groundbreaking new work on the global battle over reproductive rights by the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming Award-winning journalist Michelle Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century in The Means of Reproduction . Deeply reported across four... more...
Women's Rights?
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 49.95This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'. more...
Marriage at Midlife
Springer Publishing Company 2009; US$ 69.00Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1: Guiding Perspectives and Analytical Tools. Defining the "Centerstage" Marriage. The Empty Nest-an Empty Metaphor?. Our Research: How Did We Learn About Centerstage Marriages?. Five Couples: Five Different Challenges. How to Use This Book. A Guiding Perspective: Communicating Across the Life course. Accounting... more...
Matters of Choice
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 26.95In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican women... more...
Understanding Early Childhood
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 158.00Offers an introduction to the concepts and theories in early childhood education. Drawing on research evidence from various countries and reviewing studies about children - including anthropology, economics, history, psychology and sociology - this title offers perspectives on the ways in which we understand and study young children. more...
Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 85.00This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have determined abortion policy, but also political speeches, medical essays, theological writings, newspaper... more...
Population Politics and Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00This 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. more...









