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Contingent Lives : Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
Contingent Lives Fertility Time and Aging in West Africa - Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series
Author: Caroline H. Bledsoe
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 thi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226058528
ISBN-10: 0226058522
Publication Date: 7/1/2002
Pages: 416
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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