International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes (International Handbooks of Population, 8)

This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of gender in demography, addressing the many different influences of gender that arise from or influence demographic processes. It collects in one volume the key issues and perspectives in this area, whereby demography is broadly defined. The purpose in casting a wide net is to cover the range of work being done within demography, but at the same time to open up our perspectives to neighboring fields to encourage better conversations around these issues. The chapters in this handbook carefully document definition and measurement issues, and take up parts of the demographic picture and focus on how gender plays a role in outcomes. In other cases, gender often plays a cross-cutting role in social processes; rather than having a single or easily distinguishable role, it often combines with other social institutions and even other statuses and inequalities to affect outcomes. Thus, a key factor in this volume is how gender interacts with race/ethnicity, class, nationality, and sexuality in any demographic setting. While each section contains chapters that are broad overviews of the current state of knowledge and behavior, the handbook also includes chapters that focus on specific cultures or events in order to examine how gender operates in a particular circumstance. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Introduction (Nancy E. Riley, Jan Brunson)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Measuring Gender in the Context of Demographic Change (Nancy E. Riley, Deborah S. DeGraff)....Pages 15-36 Women, Biopower and the Making of Demographic Knowledge: India’s Demographic and Health Survey (Nilanjana Chatterjee, Nancy E. Riley)....Pages 37-54 Gender in the Investigation and Politics of ‘Low’ Fertility (Leslie King)....Pages 55-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Reproduction in Retrospective, or What’s All the Fuss Over Low Fertility? (Elizabeth L. Krause)....Pages 73-82 Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Making and Unmaking of Kin in Iran: Transformation or Variation on a Theme? (Soraya Tremayne)....Pages 83-93 Unconceived Territory: Involuntary Childlessness and Infertility Among Women in the United States (Kristin J. Wilson)....Pages 95-104 Surrogacy and Gendered Contexts of Infertility Management in India (Holly Donahue Singh)....Pages 105-116 Stratified Reproduction (Nancy E. Riley)....Pages 117-138 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Maternal Health in Nepal and Other Low-Income Countries: Causes, Contexts, and Future Directions (Jan Brunson)....Pages 141-152 When the Wages of Sin Is Death: Sexual Stigma and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (Jennifer Johnson-Hanks)....Pages 153-165 Gender and HIV: Evidence from Anthropological Demography in Nigeria (Daniel Jordan Smith)....Pages 167-179 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Gender and Migration: Evidence from Transnational Marriage Migration (Danièle Bélanger, Andrea Flynn)....Pages 183-201 Womanhood Implies Travel: Punjabi Marriage Migration Between India and Britain (Kaveri Qureshi, Ben Rogaly)....Pages 203-214 “Where Husbands Find Jobs and Women Go to School”: Gender, Employment and U.S. Refugee Resettlement of Burma-Origin Families (Pilapa Esara Carroll)....Pages 215-229 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Women’s Happiness in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Unpaid Work (Ieva Zumbyte, Susan E. Short, Nancy Luke)....Pages 233-246 Gendered Support for Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis (Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill, Vita Priantina Dewi, Tengku Syawila Fithry, Philip Kreager)....Pages 247-266 Demographics of Gay and Lesbian Partnerships and Families (D’Lane R. Compton, Amanda K. Baumle)....Pages 267-285 Marriage in Contemporary Japan (Laura Dales)....Pages 287-298 The Exaggerated Demise of Polygyny: Transformations in Marriage and Gender Relations in West Africa (Bruce Whitehouse)....Pages 299-313 Front Matter ....Pages 315-315 Women As Actors in Addressing Climate Change (Yves Charbit)....Pages 317-328 Structures of Violence Throughout the Life Course: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Gender-Based Violence (Jennifer R. Wies, Hillary J. Haldane)....Pages 329-340 Gender, Displacement, and Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, Karleen D. Gribble)....Pages 341-355 Back Matter ....Pages 357-359