Demography - American Sociological Association

*Ravenholt, RT (1990), Tobacco's global death march," Population and Development Review 16
(2): 213-240
*Caldwell, John. 2000. “Rethinking the African AIDS Epidemic” Population and Development
Review. 26 (1): 117-135. Recommended.
Video: AIDS in Africa
16 October: Midterm Exam
Week 8 (16,18 Oct): Fertility
Reading:
*Knodel, John and Van der walle, Etienne (1979), "Lessons from the past: population
implications of historical fertility studies," Population and Development Review 5 (2): 217-245.
*Mason, Karen O. 1997. “Explaining fertility transitions,” Demography 34 (4): 443-454.
*Alter, George (1992), "Theories of fertility decline: a nonspecialist's guide to the current
debate," in J. Gillis, et al, eds. The European Experience of Declining Fertility. Cambridge:
Blackwell, pp. 13-27.
*Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood
*Osakue, Grace and Adrianne Martin-Hilber. 1998. “Women’s sexuality and fertility in Nigeria:
breaking the culture of silence,” in Petchesky and Judd, eds. Negotiating Reproductive Rights.
Zed, pp. 180-216.
Week 9 (23, 25 Oct): Fertility Behavior: The Role of Context
Reading:
*Dyson, Tim and Mick Moore (1983), "On kinship structure, female autonomy, and demographic
behaviour in India," Population and Development Review 9 (1):35-60 (March).
*Schneider, Peter and Jane Schneider. 1995. “Coitus interruptus and family respectability in
Catholic Europe: A Sicilian case study,” in F. Ginsburg and R. Rapp Conceiving the New World
Order. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 177-194.
*Browner, Carole (1986), "The politics of repro. in a Mexican village" Signs 11 (4):710-724.
*El Dawla, Aida Seif, et al. 1998. “Women’s wit over men’s: Trade-offs & strategic
accommodations in Egyptian women’s lives,” in Petchesky and Judd, eds. Negotiating
Reproductive Rights. Zed, pp. 69-107.
Week 10 (30 Oct, 1 Nov): The Debates over Population Policy: Population and Development
Reading:
*Furedi, chapters 3-6
*Pyne, Hnin Hnin. 1994. “Reproductive experiences and the needs of Thai
women: where has development taken us?” in G. Sen and R. Snow, eds. Power and Decision: The
Social Control of Reproduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (distributers), pp. 19-41.
*Kligman, Gail. 1995. “Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania,”
in F. Ginsburg and R. Rapp Conceiving the New World Order. Berkeley: UCal Press, 234-255.
Week 11 (6, 8 Nov): Population Policy: China and India
Reading:
*Greenhalgh, Susan (1994), "Controlling births and bodies in village China," American
Ethnologist 21 (1): 3-30.
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