Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes Moving beyond Cairo [Hardcover]

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.

Part I. Introduction
1. Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork,Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen
Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment
2. Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights,Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala
3. Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North,Paula England
Part III. Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health
4. Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination,Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain
5. Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa,Barbara Klugman
6. Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants,Sunita Kishor
Part IV. Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes
7. The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context,John Hobcraft
8. Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour,Anastasia J. Gage
9. Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context,Shireen Jejeebhoy
10. The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria,Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak
11. Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico,Br?gida Garc?a
12. Migration and Women's Empowerment,Graeme Hugo
13. Women's Empowerment, Marló+