The Cairo Consensus - Demographic Surveys, Women s Empowerment, Regime Change in

Informationen zum Autor By Saul Halfon Klappentext The Cairo Consensus explores population policy during the 1990s. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, Halfon maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Zusammenfassung The Cairo Consensus explores population policy during the 1990s. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus! Halfon maps the discourses! technical practices! and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Structured Disunity: Rethinking Consensus as a Meraphor for "Getting Along" Part 4 Population Discourses Chapter 5 Over-Populating the World:Discourses on "The Population Problem," 1945 to the Present Chapter 6 Reading Cairo Chapter 7 Re-Configuring Women's Empowerment :From Politics to Planning Part 8 Technical Practices in the Population Network Chapter 9 Contesting Surveys:Co-Producing Demography and Population Policy Chapter 10 Standardizing Surveys:Building Consensus through Technical Practice Chapter 11 Narrating Unmet Need Part 12 Instituting the Cairo Regime Chapter 13 Translating Unmet Need into Market Demand:Contraceptive Development after Cairo Chapter 14 Conclusion:Projecting Population Policy

Product details

• Authors: Saul Halfon, Halfon Saul
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780739111765
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1176-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Egypt, c 1960 to c 1970, Gender studies: women, c 1960 to c 1969, Gender studies: women and girls, Population & demography, Population and Demography