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Childlessness in the age of communication : deconstructing silence
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ISBN: 0367810395 9781000033427 9781000033380 9780367810399 1000033422 1000033341 1000033384 9781000033342 0367409941 1032478063 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This bookis both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable account of the way the silence surrounding this topic is socially and politically constructed. Revealing the invisible mechanisms that, from the microscopic details of everyday life to policy, make up the structure of silence around childlessness, Archetti demonstrates what it means not to have children in a society that is organized around families. Through a prose that mixes analysis, excerpts of interviews, media fragments, and evocative writing, she develops a new language of feeling-in-the-body fit for the twenty-first century and exposes the devastating effects infertility has on relationships, identity, health and well-being, in societies that fetishize parenthood. Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws upon a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health, gender and sexuality studies, communication, politics and anthropology. It is a book for all those interested in childlessness and innovative qualitative research methodologies.


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Evaluation of the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov)
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ISBN: 9780833086709 0833086707 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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Modeling the distribution and intergenerational transmission of wealth
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ISBN: 0226764540 9786611431099 1281431095 0226764605 9780226764603 9780226764542 Year: 1980 Volume: 46 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This pioneering volume uses modern statistical and simulation techniques to explain the process of wealth transmission and the persistent problem of the unequal distribution of wealth. These papers reflect a shift from the traditional cross-sectional measurement to an intertemporal focus by attempting to model mathematically the actual process by which wealth is acquired and transmitted. There are many questions to be answered: What are the factors influencing saving? What is the role of mating? What decides ownership between spouses? How are rare assets distributed by divorce? What are the patterns of behavior in making gifts and bequests? And what is the effect of the relative ages of the persons involved?


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Population concerns in India : shifting trends, policies, and programs
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ISBN: 9386446154 9789386446152 9789386446145 9386446146 9789386446169 9386446162 Year: 2017 Publisher: Los Angeles, [California] : SAGE,

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Cultivating global citizens
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ISBN: 0674055713 0674059344 9780674059344 9780674055711 0674264053 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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In this wide-ranging and impressive work, Greenhalgh examines the evolution of China’s population policy in the post-Mao era. She notes that during the past thirty years the role of the state in managing China’s population and the bodies of its citizens has expanded enormously, involving efforts to promote women’s health, foster higher population ‘quality,’ and even combat infertility. If we want to understand the challenges that China’s rise presents to the rest of the world, we need to appreciate the centrality of all aspects of population management in the strategic thinking of Chinese elites. Cultivating Global Citizens provides a vital guide to this controversial terrain.

The origins and evolution of family planning programs in developing countries
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ISBN: 0833029282 9786612283086 1282283081 0833033743 9780833033741 9780833029287 Year: 2002 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand,

Long-term factors in American economic growth
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ISBN: 0226209288 0226209296 9786611125530 1281125539 0226209318 9780226209319 9780226209289 Year: 1992 Volume: 51 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."-Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic Journal

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History of North America --- Economic growth --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- United States --- North America --- Economic conditions --- 330.35 (73) --- 338 (73) --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 331.100 --- 338.8 --- Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09}--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Economische groei. --- Economic conditions. --- Conferences - Meetings --- 338 (73) Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 330.35 (73) Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09}--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Economische groei --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. --- North America - Economic conditions --- United States - Economic conditions --- west indies, britain, england, colonialism, empire, colony, canada, united states, economics, mortality, health, fertility, wealth, capital stock, national product, economy, transaction, choice, rent, mobility, utah, frontier, inheritance, ohio, birth control, contraceptives, family size, nonfiction, nutrition, labor, gender, women, caribbean, race, class, industrialization, railway, finance, funds. --- United States of America


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The global family planning revolution : three decades of population policies and programs
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ISBN: 9780821369517 0821369512 9786610940516 1280940514 0821369520 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950's to the 1970's, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century.

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314.335.2 --- 314.336 --- Population policy --- -Birth control --- -Contraception --- -Fertility, Human --- -Population --- -Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Human fertility --- Natality --- Human reproduction --- Infertility --- Conception --- Birth control --- Reproductive rights --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Population planning --- Social policy --- Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- Prevention --- -Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- Contraception -- Developing countries -- Case studies. --- Family planning -- Developing countries -- Case studies. --- Population policy -- Case studies. --- Fertility, Human --- Population --- Community Health Services --- Culture --- Public Policy --- International Cooperation --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Reproductive Health Services --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Family Planning Policy --- History, 20th Century --- Family Planning Services --- Developing Countries --- History --- Health Services --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Social Control Policies --- Internationality --- Social Sciences --- Social Control, Formal --- Policy --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Anthropology --- Humanities --- Health Care --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Business & Economics --- 314.336 Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- 314.335.2 Geboortebeperking --(demografische analyse) --- -314.336 Gezinsplanning. Gezinsgrootte --- Human population --- Parenthood, Planned --- Planned parenthood --- Planning --- Birth intervals --- Family size

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