An Analysis of Reproductive Behavior in Brazil
Title | An Analysis of Reproductive Behavior in Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | Nelson do Valle Silva |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fertility, Human |
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Brazil, an Analysis of Reproductive Behavior in Brazil
Title | Brazil, an Analysis of Reproductive Behavior in Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | Nelson do Valle Silva |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Birth control |
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Brazil's Missing Infants
Title | Brazil's Missing Infants PDF eBook |
Author | Marcoa A. Rangel |
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Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
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Reproductive Change in India and Brazil
Title | Reproductive Change in India and Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | George Martine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
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A comparative study of fertility declines occurring in India and Brazil. It consists of 11 papers by well-known scholars from various disciplines, among them demographers, anthropologists, and economists.
Society and Fertility
Title | Society and Fertility PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Potts |
Publisher | MacDonald & Evans |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Offspring
Title | Offspring PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2003-05-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 030908718X |
Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior, little of this work has penetrated into formal demography. Very few demographers worry about how biological processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have demographic consequences even though behavioral geneticists have documented genetics effects on variables such as parenting and divorce. Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Demographic Perspective brings together leading researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to review the state of research in this emerging field and to identify promising research directions for the future.
Virtually Virgins
Title | Virtually Virgins PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica L. Gregg |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804747561 |
This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (favela) in northeastern Brazil, while exploring the complex interplay between gender, sexuality, power, and disease. It reveals how poor Brasileiras are constrained by dominant cultural constructions of female sexuality as a dangerous force that must be controlled by men; yet these women also manipulate these expectations by using their sexuality as a means to secure economic support from men. The book argues that these constructions affect their interpretations of medical discourse on the prevention of cervical cancer. Since women view sex as both a force they can't control and as a necessary tool for their survival, they choose to de-emphasize medical warnings against risky sexual behavior, with grave consequences for their health. The text is threaded with poignant, humorous, sometimes graphic, and always memorable depictions of the women’s lives in the shantytowns, making this serious anthropological study a highly readable one as well.