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Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa - Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series 2nd edition
Caroline H. Bledsoe
Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa - Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series 2nd edition
Caroline H. Bledsoe
Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it for the opposite reason, to have more children. This study of aging and reproduction makes use of ethnographic and demographic data.
368 pages, 21 line drawings, 5 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 1, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780226058528 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 416 |
Dimensions | 228 × 153 × 23 mm · 558 g |
Language | English |
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