Author: Rogers Hansine
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643913435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa is considered the last region in the world where women still give birth to presumably too many children. However, within large cities such as Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the average number of children per woman varies greatly. What is extraordinary, as this book shows, is that childbearing is a social action. Parenting allows one to consider different action alternatives, or rather, opportunities to act. These actions are not the same for everyone in different contexts. The book highlights that macro level socio- demographic changes, namely intraurban reproductive disparities are brought up by micro level (individual) actions.
Reproducing in an African City Today
Author: Rogers Hansine
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643913435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa is considered the last region in the world where women still give birth to presumably too many children. However, within large cities such as Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the average number of children per woman varies greatly. What is extraordinary, as this book shows, is that childbearing is a social action. Parenting allows one to consider different action alternatives, or rather, opportunities to act. These actions are not the same for everyone in different contexts. The book highlights that macro level socio- demographic changes, namely intraurban reproductive disparities are brought up by micro level (individual) actions.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643913435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa is considered the last region in the world where women still give birth to presumably too many children. However, within large cities such as Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the average number of children per woman varies greatly. What is extraordinary, as this book shows, is that childbearing is a social action. Parenting allows one to consider different action alternatives, or rather, opportunities to act. These actions are not the same for everyone in different contexts. The book highlights that macro level socio- demographic changes, namely intraurban reproductive disparities are brought up by micro level (individual) actions.
Ghana on the Go
Author: Jennifer Hart
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.
Population Growth and Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: György Acsádi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Author: Robert Wyrod
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286693
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda, a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on extensive ethnographic research in an urban slum community called Bwaise, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for men's and women's health and wellbeing in Uganda and beyond"--
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286693
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda, a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story. Based on extensive ethnographic research in an urban slum community called Bwaise, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for men's and women's health and wellbeing in Uganda and beyond"--
Governing Africa's Cities
Author: Mark Swilling
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This study of African cities examines how the urban systems and the people within them are coping with the pressures of urban growth. Twenty African countries are covered, and the concluding chapter discusses the impending challenges in the governance of African urban development.
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This study of African cities examines how the urban systems and the people within them are coping with the pressures of urban growth. Twenty African countries are covered, and the concluding chapter discusses the impending challenges in the governance of African urban development.
Slavery and the Birth of an African City
Author: Kristin Mann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Probes the relationship between the slave trade and one of Africas most vibrant centers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Probes the relationship between the slave trade and one of Africas most vibrant centers
Nuptiality and Human Reproduction in Nigeria
Author: Patrick O. Ohadike
Publisher: Regional Institute for Population Studies Un
ISBN:
Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Regional Institute for Population Studies Un
ISBN:
Category : Fertility, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
South African City
Author: J. J. McCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Perhaps no region matches sub-Saharan Africa in its social and cultural diversity. In this collection of micro-demographic studies, the authors examine how the diversity of this region influences reproductive behavior. The empirical studies, distributed throughout the continent, are localized, in-depth studies that give special attention to contextual effects of social structure and social organization. A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime. Highly revealing of the determinants of reproduction in Africa, these studies serve as a model for a new mode of demographic research. The chapters are arranged by geographical regions of the continent, with an introductory chapter outlining the editors' vision of a micro-demographic enterprise and a concluding chapter placing the African fertility transition in the context of the global fertility transition. This volume inspires fresh thinking and theorizing about demographic change, not only in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in all low-income settings.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Perhaps no region matches sub-Saharan Africa in its social and cultural diversity. In this collection of micro-demographic studies, the authors examine how the diversity of this region influences reproductive behavior. The empirical studies, distributed throughout the continent, are localized, in-depth studies that give special attention to contextual effects of social structure and social organization. A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime. Highly revealing of the determinants of reproduction in Africa, these studies serve as a model for a new mode of demographic research. The chapters are arranged by geographical regions of the continent, with an introductory chapter outlining the editors' vision of a micro-demographic enterprise and a concluding chapter placing the African fertility transition in the context of the global fertility transition. This volume inspires fresh thinking and theorizing about demographic change, not only in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in all low-income settings.