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9780198294443

Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline

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    9780198294443

  • ISBN10:

    0198294441

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-30
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

Traditionally, women have been the sole focus of fertility studies. Ranging broadly over ethnographies, national surveys, and historical texts, this volume breaks imaginative new ground in grappling with the immense variation in male reproduction across the world.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1(28)
Caroline Bledsoe
Jane I. Guyer
Susana Lerner
Part I Overviews
Male Fertility Trends in Industrial Countries: Theories in Search of Some Evidence
29(32)
David A. Coleman
Traditions of Studying Paternity in Social Anthropology
61(32)
Jane I. Guyer
Part II Shaping Male Reproductive Culture
The Seeds of Man: Ethnological Notes on Male Sexuality and Fecundity among the Maya
93(26)
Mario Humberto Ruz
Making `Responsible' Men: Planning the Family in Egypt
119(25)
Kamran Asdar Ali
Male Protagonists in the `Commercialization' of Aspects of the Female Life-Cycle in Ghana
144(19)
John K. Anarfi
Clara Korkor Fayorsey
Part III Men in Multiple Unions
Men, Polygyny, and Fertility Over the Life-Course in Sub-Saharan Africa
163(25)
Ann K. Blanc
Anastasia J. Gage
Male Nuptiality and Male Fertility among the Qing Nobility: Polygyny or Serial Monogamy?
188(19)
James Lee
Wang Feng
Dimensions of Sexuality among Nigerian Men: Implications for Fertility and Reproductive Health
207(26)
Nosa Orobaton
Part IV Conundrums of Entry into Fatherhood
`Someone to Take My Place': Fertility and the Male Life-Course among Coastal Boiken, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
233(24)
Philip Setel
Fatherhood in East and West Germany: Results of the German Family and Fertility Survey
257(18)
Katharina Pohl
Fathers and Families in Contemporary Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy
275(18)
Pau Miret-Gamundi
Part V Fatherhood of Which Children?
Demographic Patterns of Motherhood and Fatherhood in France
293(38)
Laurent Toulemon
Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk
Men, Parenthood, and Divorce in the Era of the Second Demographic Transition
331(12)
Frances K. Goldscheider
Pamela Webster
Gayle Kaufman
Male Fertility as a Lifetime of Relationships: Contextualizing Men's Biological Reproduction in Botswana
343(22)
Nicholas W. Townsend
Appendix: Complete List of Papers and Participants in the Seminar 365(2)
Index 367

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