Description |
xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Introduction: Embodied States - Familial and National Genealogies in Asia and the Pacific / Margaret Jolly -- Ch. 1. Government Agency, Women's Agency: Feminisms, Fertility, and Population Control / Kathryn Robinson -- Ch. 2. Her Body and Her Being: Of Widows and Abducted Women in Post-Partition India / Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin -- Ch. 3. Rationalizing Fecund Bodies: Family Planning Policy and the Modern Indian Nation-State / Kalpana Ram -- Ch. 4. Keep It in the Family: Government, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary China / Gary Sigley -- Ch. 5. Doing God's Work: Citizenship, Gender, and Sexuality in the Philippines / Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Ch. 6. Fecundity and the Fertility Decline in Bali / Lynette Parker -- Ch. 7. Empowerment or Control? Northeast Thai Women and Family Planning / Andrea Whittaker -- Ch. 8. Mutual Goals? Family Planning on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Christine M. Dureau |
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Ch. 9. Infertile States: Person and Collectivity, Region and Nation in the Rhetoric of Pacific Population / Margaret Jolly |
Analysis |
Sociology |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects -- Asia.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Oceania.
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Sex role -- Asia.
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Sex role -- Oceania.
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Birth control -- Government policy -- Asia.
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Birth control -- Government policy -- Oceania.
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Women -- Asia -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Oceania -- Social conditions.
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SUBJECT |
Asia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114281
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Oceania -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423
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Author |
Ram, Kalpana.
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Jolly, Margaret.
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LC no. |
00010459 |
ISBN |
0472097555 cloth alkaline paper |
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0472067559 paperback |
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