TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bledsoe,Caroline H.
AU  - Banja,Fatoumatta
TI  - Contingent lives: fertility, time, and aging in West Africa 
T2  - The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
SN  - 9780226058504 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HQ766.5.G25 B54 2002eb
U1  - 363.9/6/096651 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Birth control
KW  - Gambia
KW  - Family size
KW  - Fertility, Human
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Reproduction
KW  - Family Planning Services
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Régulation des naissances
KW  - Gambie
KW  - Famille
KW  - Dimension
KW  - Fécondité humaine
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Abortion & Birth Control
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anticonceptie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vruchtbaarheid
KW  - Gezinsgrootte
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Geburtenregelung
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction; 3. Setting, Data, and Methods; 4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing; 5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing; 6. Realizing a Reproductive Endowment in a Contingent Body; 7. Time-Neutral Reproduction, Time-Neutral Aging; 8. Reaping the Rewards of Reproduction: Morality, Retirement, and Repletion; 9. Discovering Our Habitus: Contingency and Linearity in Western Obstetric Observations; 10. Rethinking Fertility, Time, and Aging; Appendixes; Glossary
N2  - Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason--to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as continge
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