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Zusatztext This book does make necessary contributions to the study of both gender and of demographic processes, largely because it gathers together a broad set of analytic tools, schemata, and concepts for talking about women's empowerment - a veritable "tool kit" for those who want to study empowerment but are not sure where to begin or how to approach this vast topic. Informationen zum Autor Harriet Presser is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality at the University of Maryland. Gita Sen is Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Mangement in Bangalore, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health Klappentext This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributors identify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure women's empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies. Zusammenfassung This volume extends the research programme on womens' empowerment originally brought to prominence at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. The book refines the concept of empowerment, how it can be measured and its effect on establishing population policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction 1: Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen: Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment 2: Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala: Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights 3: Paula England: Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North Part III. Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health 4: Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain: Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination 5: Barbara Klugman: Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa 6: Sunita Kishor: Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants Part IV. Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes 7: John Hobcraft: The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context 8: Anastasia J. Gage: Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour 9: Shireen Jejeebhoy: Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context 10: Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak: The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria 11: Brígida García: Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico 12: Graeme Hugo: Migration and Women's Empowerment 13: Noriko O. Tsuya: Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective Part V. Future Directions for Population Policy 14: Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. Jacobson: Population Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities Appendix. Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus ...
