Markets and Malthus : population, gender, and health in neo-liberal times / edited by Mohan Rao, Sarah Sexton.

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TextPublication details: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 350 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9788132106142
8132106148
9781282839601
1282839608

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Markets and Malthus.DDC classification:

304.6 22

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HB849.41 .M36 2010eb

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Contents:

Introduction : population, health, and gender in neo-liberal times / Mohan Rao, Sarah Sexton -- A decade and more after Cairo : women's health in a free market economy / Sarah Sexton and Sumati Nair -- Liberal ends, illiberal means : national security, "environmental conflict" and the making of the Cairo consensus / Betsy Hartmann -- The politics of abortion : a note / Marlene Fried -- An entangled Skein : neo-Malthusianisms in neo- liberal times / Mohan Rao -- Neo-liberal development and reproductive health in India : the making of the personal and the political / Rachel Simon-Kumar -- A decade after cairo in Latin America : an overview / Martha Rosenberg -- Redefining and medicalizing population policies : NGOs and their innovative contributions to the post Cairo agenda / Susanne Schultz -- Structural adjustment, impotence, and family planning : men's voices in Egypt / Kamran Asdar Ali -- What has happened in Africa since Cairo? / Meredeth Turshen -- Reproductive health, family planning, and HIV/AIDs : dangers of (dis)integration in Tanzania and Uganda / Lisa Ann Richey -- China's population policies : engendered biopolitics, the one-child norm, and masculinization of child sex ratios / Susan Greenhalgh.

Summary: Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant for women's rights, including reproductive rights?. The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging from India and China, to Egypt.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the Cairo consensus and process? How has the health of people around the world been affected by neo-liberal economic policies? What have these meant for women's rights, including reproductive rights?. The book presents detailed case studies from various countries ranging from India and China, to Egypt.

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