Negotiating Through Reproductive Change

Gendered Social Interaction and Fertility Regulation in Mozambique

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3204879
AutoresVictor Agadjanian (0000-0002-9639-1485, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume27
Fascículo2
Páginas291-309
Data de publicação2001-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070124003
OpenAlexW3140587697
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas8

This paper addresses the role of informal social interaction in reproductive changes. Using data from individual and focus groups interviews conducted with men and women in suburban areas of Greater Maputo, Mozambique, it shows how people gain fertility-related and family planning-related information and form their corresponding attitudes and preferences through verbal and non-verbal exchanges with others. This social interaction on reproductive matters is gendered: men and women's interaction circuits rarely overlap, focus on different aspects of fertility and family-planning and construe them in distinctly gendered ways. Informal social interaction, therefore, affects marital partners' reproductive choices not only by complementing fertility-related information disseminated through formal channels but also through accentuating and negotiating gender differences in reproductive goals and expectations

Family planning · Fertility · Focus group · Negotiation · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology