Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception
An African Challenge to Fertility Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4120364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Bledsoe (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture), Fatoumatta Banja, Allan G Hill (0000-0002-4418-0379) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2808121 |
| OpenAlex | W2038385914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 105 |
| References cited | 36 |
Caroline Bledsoe, Fatoumatta Banja, Allan G. Hill, Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception: An African Challenge to Fertility Theory, Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 15-57
Abortion · Biology · Family planning · Fertility · Pill · Population · Pregnancy · Reproduction · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Technologies
A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia
Period and Cohort Dynamics in Fertility Norms at the Onset of the Demographic Transition in Kenya 1978–1998
Polygyny and Women's Health in Rural Mali
Distinguishing the Impact of Postponement, Spacing and Stopping on Birth Intervals
Planning a family in Nairobi’s informal settlements
The impact of fertility intentions on behavior
Stability and Change in Fertility Preferences Among Young Women in Malawi
Education, Ethnicity, and Reproductive Practice in Cameroon
Reproductive Strategies and Decisions in Senegal
Myths, Lies, and Impotence
The Rasch Rating Model and the Disordered Threshold Controversy
Formulating the Rasch Differential Item Functioning Model Under the Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation Context and Its Comparison With Mantel–Haenszel Procedure in Short Test and Small Sample Conditions
On the Relationship Between Differential Item Functioning and Item Difficulty
Pregnant Children and Half-Dead Adults
Understanding Family Change and Variation
Consequences of family policies on childbearing behavior
Welfare States, Family Policies, and Fertility in Europe
Ethnophysiology and Contraceptive Use Among Low-Income Women in Urban Brazil
Closing the Womb Door
Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso
“I know my body and I just can't get pregnant that easily” – Women's use and non-use of the injection to manage fertility
Polygyny and women's health in sub-Saharan Africa
Contingency, Context, and Change
The sociology of global health
The Fertility of Palestinian Women in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon
Rethinking the effectiveness of family planning in Africa
Reproductive health technologies and gender
Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals
Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context
The emerging fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa
Sibship size and education in South Africa
Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects
Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds
Cultural change beyond adoption dynamics
Accounting for abortion
Making meaning in the time of Aids
Demographic, epidemiological, and health transitions
Why do women have more children than they want? Understanding differences in women's ideal and actual family size in a natural fertility population
On the Population Reach of Contraception
Special Issue
Contexts of reproduction
The compound as a locus of fertility management
Testing differences
Scarcity mindset in reproductive health decision making
When Numbers Began to Count for Health Policy
Channels of Social Influence on Reproduction
Men’s Migration and Women’s Fertility in Rural Mozambique
How Is Fertility Behavior in Africa Different
Intensive Parenting
Young Women’s Dynamic Family Size Preferences in the Context of Transitioning Fertility
Spacing, Stopping, or Postponing? Fertility Desires in a Sub-Saharan Setting
The Role of Couple Negotiation in Unmet Need for Contraception and the Decision to Stop Childbearing in Uganda
From Birth to Death
Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi
Capturing Complexities of Relationship‐Level Family Planning Trajectories in Malawi
The Time Dynamics of Individual Fertility Preferences Among Rural Ghanaian Women
Factors Influencing Young Malians' Reluctance to Use Hormonal Contraceptives
Explanations of Unmet Need for Contraception in Chitwan, Nepal
The Long‐Term Fertility Impact of the Navrongo Project in Northern Ghana
Toward a Comprehensive Demography
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Natural Intentions
Exhausted Patients
Beyond 'Family Planning'-Local Realities on Contraception and Abortion in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Loss in childbearing among Gambia's kanyalengs
Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal parities
On the Modernity of Traditional Contraception
To have or not to have another child
Learning the Facts of Life
Researching sexual and reproductive behaviour
Women's health in urban Mali
Estimating clandestine abortion with the confidants method-results from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Working outside of the box
Infertility Makes You Invisible
Reproductive Decision Making and the HIV/Aids Epidemic in Zimbabwe
The lesser shame
Beyond body counts
The tongue is venomous
Investigating the association between HIV/Aids and recent fertility patterns in Kenya
Where the lay and the technical meet
Birth intervals, postponement, and fertility decline in Africa
L'avortement
Contradictions in Nigeria's Fertility Transition
The Flexibility of Fertility Preferences in a Context of Uncertainty
Reactions of Developing-Country Elites to International Population Policy
Fertility Transition
On Postponement and Birth Intervals
Consequences of Family Policies on Childbearing Behavior
Trends in Inter-Birth Intervals in Developing Countries 1965-2014
Reassessing the Insurance Effect
Construction, Control and Family Planning in Tanzania
Women's Childbearing Decisions in Guinea
Stratégies reproductives et prise de décision au Sénégal
La fécondité des Palestiniennes à Gaza, en Cisjordanie, en Jordanie et au Liban
Éducation, ethnicité et pratiques reproductives au Cameroun
Measuring pregnancy planning
Reproductive Dynamics in the Context of Domestic Violence and Economic Insecurity
Gender in African Population Research
Demographic Transitions and Modernity
The ends of cutting in Ghana
The continuing demographic transition
Fertility, biology and behavior
Anthropological demography
Bushman birth spacing
Child-Spacing Effects on Infant and Early Child Mortality
Some data on natural fertility
The Demographic Transition
Do reproductive patterns affect maternal nutritional status
Lactation, seasonality, and mother's postpartum weight change in Bangladesh
Collecting Data on Pregnancy Loss
The emerging fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa
A new definition of maternal depletion syndrome
Explaining fertility transitions
Fertility transition, conscious choice, and numeracy
The Contours of Demography
Use of Contraceptives for Birth Spacing in a Nigerian City
Rethinking Postpartum Family Planning
The Potential Impact of Changes in Fertility on Infant, Child and Maternal Mortality
Child-spacing in Tropical Africa
The Demographic Impact of the Family Planning--Health Services Project in Matlab, Bangladesh
Negotiating Reproductive Outcomes in Uganda
Fitness and fertility among kalahari !Kung
Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality
The Anthropology of Time
Do gravidity and age affect pregnancy outcome
Why High Birth Rates Are So Low
Abortion in a Changing World
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
Constructing Natural Fertility
Evolutionary and Wealth Flows Theories of Fertility
Family Systems and Cultural Change
Fertility Decline in Africa
Contraception and Reproduction
Contraception and "Natural" Fertility in America
Culture and Human Fertility. A Study of the Relation of Cultural Conditions to Fertility in Non Industrial and Transitional Societies
The Cultural Anthropology of Time
| Unique citing works | 105 |
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| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 91 |