Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies, Choices, Constraints

In: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Approaches and Methods -- 1 Introduction: Contraception across Cultures -- 2 Psychosocial Data and Cross-Cultural Analyses: Challenges to Anthropology and Contraceptive Research -- 3 Responding to Reality: The Efficacy of Anthropological and Participatory Methods for the Implementation of Sustainable Contraceptive Programmes -- Part 2 Contraception in its Political and Economic Contexts -- 4 Fertility Running Wild: Elite Perceptions of the Need for Birth Control in White-Ruled Rhodesia -- 5 A Clinic in Conflict: A Political Economy Case Study of Family Planning in Haiti -- Part 3 Contraceptive Policy and Practice: User Perspectives -- 6 'Weak Blood' and 'Crowded Bellies': Cultural Influences on Contraceptive Use Among Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel -- 7 New Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in the Galilee -- 8 My Body, My Problem: Contraceptive Decision-Making among Rural Bangladeshi Women -- Part 4 Contraceptive Policy and Practice: Provider Perspectives -- 9 Uzbekistan in Transition - Changing Concepts in Family Planning and Reproductive Health -- 10 Family Planning or Reproductive Health? Interpreting Policy and Providing Family Planning Services in Highland Chiapas, Mexico -- Index.