WOMENSTD 438 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unintended Pregnancy, Premarital Sex, Infant Mortality
12 Apr 2016
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1-11: inverse correlaion between women"s schooling and their ferility. Done through use of contracepion: horizons the principles against which alternaive futures are evaluated (by tracing horizons women"s acions in negoiaing vital conjunctures become more coherent) Talking their way out of populaion crisis: helen epstein: a billion more people than previously expected could be born by the end of the century. Week 8 reading: spousal communicaion is a powerful predictor of both contracepive use and smaller family size. These discussions are silenced by many factors and this remains high: many africans see large families as an asset, basing enire culture devoted to reproducion, even with child mortality falling, women sill afraid to even discuss family planning. In fear they will be beat by their husbands: tried holding durbars all male poliical gatherings presided over by the village chief to help explain to men that family planning would make their women and children healthier and stronger.
