Gender in African Population Research
The Fertility/Reproductive Health Example
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2297592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Nii-Amoo Dodoo (Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802,), F Nii‐amoo Dodoo, Ashley E Frost (Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802,), Ashley Frost |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 431-452 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134552 |
| OpenAlex | W2169866204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 95 |
We survey the literature on sub-Saharan Africa to identify how gender has factored into explaining fertility levels and behavior. Tracing the development of male role theory, we argue that despite increasing awareness of men's authority, fertility research continues to focus almost exclusively on women and treats gender as a property of individuals instead of as a system of inequality. The mainstream fertility literature generally overlooks the decision-making nexus wherein men's authority seemingly overrides women's preferences. Positing that male authority in the reproductive and sexual arenas is predicated on cultural rights negotiated at marriage-and undergirded by bridewealth payments-we contend that attempts to understand (and change) reproductive behavior will hardly be sustainable without attention to this contextual realm. In that vein, we speculate that efforts to empower women (via increased education, occupational opportunities, microcredit schemes, etc.) may hardly yield sustainable outcomes without concurrent efforts to alter cultural distributions of gendered power
Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Mainstream · Nexus (standard · Political science · Population · Privilege (computing · Realm · Reproductive health · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Global Maternal and Child Health · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Demography · Gender Studies · Law
Impaired Fertility and Perceived Difficulties Conceiving in Ghana
The Sociology of Global Health
Family Planning, Abortion, and Reproductive Health
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Developing Countries
On the Population Reach of Contraception
Female Education and Fertility Transitions in Ghana
Contexts of reproduction
Spousal and Household Characteristics Associated with Women’s Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bridewealth Marriage in the 21st Century
Household decision-making and its association with intimate partner violence
Maternal education and sibling inequalities in child nutritional status in Ethiopia
Uptake of HIV testing among aging adults in Agincourt, South Africa
Measuring gender and reproductive health in Africa using demographic and health surveys
Condom use among married and cohabiting women and its implications for HIV infection in Mahikeng, South Africa
Gender inequality and the use of maternal healthcare services in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Risky Sexual Behaviour Among Married and Cohabiting Women and its Implication for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Mahikeng, South Africa
Men Play, Women Break the Town
Culture, Region, and Cross‐National Violent Crime
Poverty, Gender and Fertility in Rural Kenya
It makes more sense to educate a boy”
Ambivalence Toward Men
The role of intergenerational transfers, land, and education in fertility transition in rural Kenya
Community and Individual Education Influences on Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge in Uganda
Fertility and Infertility
The Man Comes to Marry the Woman”
Low intensity intimate partner aggression in Ghana
Men's Multiple Sexual Partnerships in 15 Sub‐Saharan African Countries
Women and High Fertility in Islamic Northern Nigeria
Premarital Fertility and Marital Timing in Malawi
Improving Data Concerning Women's Empowerment in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Gender Attitudes and Fertility Aspirations among Young Men in Five High Fertility East African Countries
Exploring Multiple Measures of Pregnancy Preferences and Their Relationship with Postpartum Contraceptive Uptake Using Longitudinal Data from PMA Ethiopia
Exploring the Paradox of Intimate Partner Violence and Increased Contraceptive Use in sub‐Saharan Africa
Men's Perspectives on Their Role in Family Planning in Nyanza Province, Kenya
Women's Autonomy and Timing of Most Recent Sexual Intercourse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Household structure vs. composition
The Shadow of Indebtedness
The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana's Upper West Region
Masculinity, Money, and the Postponement of Parenthood in Nigeria
The effect of partners' education on women's reproductive and maternal health in developing countries
Mothers' reading skills and child survival in Nigeria
Where the lay and the technical meet
Ideals as Anchors for Relationship Experiences
Prospects for Fertility Decline in Africa
Working Misunderstandings
Fertility Desires and Contraceptive Transition
When Do Laws Matter? National Minimum-Age-of-Marriage Laws, Child Rights, and Adolescent Fertility, 1989-2007
Stepfather families and children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa
Lab experiments in demographic fieldwork
Further evidence of community education effects on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
Men Bring Condoms, Women Take Pills
Father Absence and the Reverse Gender Gap in Latin American Education
Community Context and Child Health
A Nowadays Disease
Migrants' Competing Commitments
Power logics of consumers' gendered (in)justices
Does financial autonomy imply reproductive and sexual autonomy? Evidence from urban poor women in Accra, Ghana
Education and risky sex in Africa
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The Meaning of marriage payments
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Anthropology theorizes reproduction
Liberating Economics
Reproduction and Social Organization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Preparing for microbicide trials in Rwanda
Wife Abuse Among a Sample of Divorced Women in Botswana
The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries
Research on gender in demography
A couple analysis of micro-level supply/demand factors in fertility regulation
HIV-Positive Women Report More Lifetime Partner Violence
Education and fertility in sub-Saharan africa
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Men matter
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Social networks and changes in contraceptive use over time
Men's Unmet Need for Family Planning
Fertility Levels, Trends, and Differentials in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s
The Influence of Spouses over each Other's Contraceptive Attitudes in Ghana
An Economic Framework for Fertility Analysis
The Buzz Outside the Clinics
Gender Differences in the Schooling Experiences of Adolescents in Low-Income Countries
Reproductive Motivation and Family-Size Preferences among Nigerian Men
The Causes of Stalling Fertility Transitions
Age and Economic Asymmetries in the Sexual Relationships of Adolescent Girls in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Women's Fears and Men's Anxieties
Family Planning Programs
Cultural and Social Factors Influencing Mortality Levels in Developing Countries
Navigating the Aids Epidemic in Rural Malawi
The Cairo Conference on Population and Development
Twentieth-Century Transformations in Notions of Gender, Parenthood, and Marriage in Southern Ghana
Marriage in Tribal Societies
Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus
Social Interactions and Contemporary Fertility Transitions
Perspectives of adolescent boys on the risks of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
The condom is an 'intruder' in marriage
Adolescent girls, illegal abortions and "sugar-daddies" in Dar es Salaam
Maternal mortality, women's status, and economic dependency in less developed countries
Learning to listen
Maternal Education and Child Health
Issues and Recent Trends in International Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Social Structure and Fertility
Desired Fertility and Fertility Behaviour among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Men's influence on the onset and progress of fertility decline in Ghana, 1988-98
The Economic Theory of Fertility Over Three Decades
Demographic Transition Theory
Sexual risk-taking in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993-98
Contradictions in Nigeria's Fertility Transition
Rethinking the African Aids Epidemic
The Poverty of Cities in Developing Regions
The Social Context of Aids in sub-Saharan Africa
The Process of Marriage in African Societies
Intergenerational Resource Flows in Cote d'Ivoire
Family Structure, Implicit Contracts, and the Demand for Children in Southern Nigeria
Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception
Demography as Social Science and Policy Science
A Framework for Analyzing the Proximate Determinants of Fertility
The Cultural Context of High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
Status, Property, and the Value on Virginity
Africa in American Sociology
Moving' and Marrying
Men, Women, and the Fertility Question in Sub-Saharan Africa
Marriage, Fertility and Parenthood in West Africa
The Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
Cultural Determinants of Sexual Risk Behavior for Aids among Baganda Women
Norms of Premarital Sexual Behavior
Spending Power
Bargaining With Patriarchy
Fertility Desires and Perceptions of Power in Reproductive Conflict in Ghana
Population and African Society
Toward A Synthesis of Feminist and Demographic Perspectives on Fertility
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You Become One in Marriage
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |