Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
1: Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen: Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork
Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment
2: Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala: Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights
3: Paula England: Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North
Part III. Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health
4: Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain: Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination
5: Barbara Klugman: Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa
6: Sunita Kishor: Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants
Part IV. Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes
7: John Hobcraft: The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context
8: Anastasia J. Gage: Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour
9: Shireen Jejeebhoy: Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context
10: Mary M. Kritz, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye, and Douglas T. Gurak: The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria
11: Brígida García: Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico
12: Graeme Hugo: Migration and Women's Empowerment
13: Noriko O. Tsuya: Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective
Part V. Future Directions for Population Policy
14: Carmen Barroso and Jodi L. Jacobson: Population Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities
Harriet B. Presser: Appendix. Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus

About the Author

Harriet Presser is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality at the University of Maryland. Gita Sen is Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Mangement in Bangalore, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health

Reviews

Excellent and long-overdue collection of essays ... In their introductory essay, Presser and Sen provide an admirable overview. Population and Development Review This book is a useful resource for researchers and practitioners who are looking for tools and for models to follow in transforming an ideological and academic commitment to women's empowerment into solid empirical research. Gender & Society The chapters by Shireen Jejeebhoy and by Sunita Kishor are very useful case studies in how to take on the daunting question of measuring women's empowerment. Gender & Society This book does make necessary contributions to the study of both gender and of demographic processes, largely because it gathers together a broad set of analytic tools, schemata, and concepts for talking about women's empowerment - a veritable "tool kit" for those who want to study empowerment but are not sure where to begin or how to approach this vast topic. Gender & Society